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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.144 2019/07/09 03:46:59 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.148 2021/08/05 14:31:14 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> -.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015,2017,2018,2019 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017-2020 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2017 Anthony Bentley <bentley@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@netbsd.org> .\" @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 9 2019 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 5 2021 $ .Dt MAN 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ Sets the volume for the footer for compatibility with man pages from .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 @@ -244,7 +246,7 @@ link description to be shown .Ed .It Ic OP Optional command-line argument. -This is a non-standard GNU extension. +This is a non-standard DWB extension. It has the following syntax: .Pp .D1 Pf . Ic OP Ar key Op Ar value @@ -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 compatibility with man pages from .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 . @@ -505,7 +516,7 @@ The syntax is as follows: .It Ic I Ta n Ta next-line Ta \& .It Ic IB Ta n Ta current Ta \& .It Ic IR Ta n Ta current Ta \& -.It Ic OP Ta >=1 Ta current Ta GNU +.It Ic OP Ta >=1 Ta current Ta DWB .It Ic PD Ta 1 Ta current Ta \& .It Ic RB Ta n Ta current Ta \& .It Ic RI Ta n Ta current Ta \& @@ -601,16 +612,32 @@ The language first appeared as a macro package for the roff typesetting system in .At v7 . -It was later rewritten by James Clark as a macro package for groff. -Eric S. Raymond wrote the extended -.Nm -macros for groff in 2007. +.Pp The stand-alone implementation that is part of the .Xr mandoc 1 -utility written by Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in +utility first appeared in .Ox 4.6 . .Sh AUTHORS -This +.An -nosplit +.An Douglas McIlroy Aq Mt m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu +designed and implemented the original version of these macros, +wrote the original version of this manual page, +and was the first to use them when he edited volume 1 of the +.At v7 +manual pages. +.Pp +.An James Clark +later rewrote the macros for groff. +.An Eric S. Raymond Aq Mt esr@thyrsus.com +and +.An Werner Lemberg Aq Mt wl@gnu.org +added the extended +.Nm +macros to groff in 2007. +.Pp +The +.Xr mandoc 1 +program and this .Nm -reference was written by +reference were written by .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv . |