From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: .IP without line args is not an ERROR
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:49:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101027204902.GA17065@britannica.bec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101027204611.GK16057@iris.usta.de>
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:46:11PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > E.g. the "restore previous" behavior for missing arguments?
>
> Actually, in that respect, man(7) is different than mdoc(7).
> In mdoc, blocks can nest, but in man, if i understand correctly,
> each block terminates the previous block, at least among the *P
> blocks discussed here. Thus, the values in mtermp need no
> resetting at all, and those in termp just get reset to mt->offset
> and to the maximum right margin, no matter what the arguments
> of the block were.
If the macros are used without argument, they use the value specified by
the last instance.
Joerg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 10:22 Ingo Schwarze
2010-10-27 12:43 ` Joerg Sonnenberger
2010-10-27 20:46 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-10-27 20:49 ` Joerg Sonnenberger [this message]
2010-10-27 20:58 ` Ingo Schwarze
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