Re: mdocml's .Ql doesn't map to original and GNU mdoc(7)

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Hi Steffen,

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 09:20:24PM +0100:

> The problem i (actually) have (had) with this is (that) mdocml's
> mdoc.7 is installed in place of the "upstream" version (in fact
> even overwriting it if you don't be careful) and can be expected
> to increasingly become _the_ source of information on mdoc(7),
> except maybe in some hardcore GNU places.

That's indeed true.

> As such it spreads
> false information, which will bite the unaware: i maybe was only
> the first in a long long line of misleaded persons.

I now see the point, so i committed the fix appended below.

Thanks for insisting,
  Ingo


Log Message:
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describe .Ql more precisely; 
defect pointed out by Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden at yandex dot com>

Modified Files:
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    mdocml:
        mdoc.7

Revision Data
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Index: mdoc.7
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mdocml/mdocml/mdoc.7,v
retrieving revision 1.246
retrieving revision 1.247
diff -Lmdoc.7 -Lmdoc.7 -u -p -r1.246 -r1.247
--- mdoc.7
+++ mdoc.7
@@ -2201,9 +2201,12 @@ See also
 Close quoted context opened by
 .Sx \&Qo .
 .Ss \&Ql
-Format a single-quoted literal.
+Request a literal font and enclose in single quotes.
+For arguments of three or more characters, formatters other than
+.Xr mandoc 1
+usually omit the quotes on non-terminal output devices.
 See also
-.Sx \&Qq
+.Sx \&Li
 and
 .Sx \&Sq .
 .Ss \&Qo
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