From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (mandoc.bsd.lv [local]) by mandoc.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 1979a4a6 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:31:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:31:58 -0500 (EST) X-Mailinglist: mandoc-source Reply-To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 From: schwarze@mandoc.bsd.lv To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv Subject: mandoc: Mention that .AT, .P, .SB, and .UC are extensions; it really X-Mailer: activitymail 1.26, http://search.cpan.org/dist/activitymail/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Message-ID: Log Message: ----------- Mention that .AT, .P, .SB, and .UC are extensions; it really matters because we only retain the language for backward compatibility in the first place. Part of the research done by , see the list for details. No change to the following conventions: Consider portable whatever made it into GNU troff no later than 4.4BSD. For portable extensions, mention their origin at the end of the description. For non-portable extensions, for example from man-ext, usually warn earlier, near the beginning of the description. Modified Files: -------------- mandoc: man.7 Revision Data ------------- Index: man.7 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/man.7,v retrieving revision 1.144 retrieving revision 1.145 diff -Lman.7 -Lman.7 -u -p -r1.144 -r1.145 --- man.7 +++ man.7 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .\" $Id$ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons -.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015,2017,2018,2019 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017-2020 Ingo Schwarze .\" Copyright (c) 2017 Anthony Bentley .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Joerg Sonnenberger .\" @@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ Sets the volume for the footer for compa .At releases. The optional arguments specify which release it is from. +This macro is an extension that first appeared in +.Bx 4.3 . .It Ic B Text is rendered in bold face. .It Ic BI @@ -255,8 +257,12 @@ is usually a command-line flag and .Ar value its argument. .It Ic P -A synonym for -.Ic PP . +This synonym for +.Ic PP +is an +.At III +extension later adopted by +.Bx 4.3 . .It Ic PD Specify the vertical space to be inserted before each new paragraph. .br @@ -343,6 +349,9 @@ See also .It Ic SB Text is rendered in small size (one point smaller than the default font) bold face. +This macro is an extension that probably first appeared in SunOS 4.0 +and was later adopted by GNU and by +.Bx 4.4 . .It Ic SH Begin a section. The scope of a section is only closed by another section or the end of @@ -435,6 +444,8 @@ Sets the volume for the footer for compa .Bx releases. The optional first argument specifies which release it is from. +This macro is an extension that first appeared in +.Bx 3 . .It Ic UE End a uniform resource identifier block started with .Ic UR . -- To unsubscribe send an email to source+unsubscribe@mandoc.bsd.lv