On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 09:56:08PM +0100, Franco Fichtner wrote: > On 26 Dec 2014, at 21:36, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > The FreeBSD's netmap(4) manpage has 2 failures that seems weird to me > > > > mandoc: ./netmap.4:932:2: ERROR: skipping unknown macro: ... > > mandoc: ./netmap.4:967:2: ERROR: skipping unknown macro: ... > > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/man/man4/netmap.4?revision=276236&view=markup > > > > What seems weird: it finds ... in .Bd section and consider it as an error, I > > would expect mandoc not to try to resolv macros inside a .Bd section, am I > > wrong? > > vim syntax highlighting picks these lines up as well. It must > parse them in order to find `.Ed', so I think the error correct. > > The line can be escaped using `\&...' or replaced by an empty > line. Maybe wrapping them into a C comment would also be ok. > > I don't see the point of obfuscating the source code snippet with > just the dots. > I will escape the dot thank you for the suggestion Best regards, Bapt