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-.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.132 2015/01/29 00:33:57 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.135 2017/05/07 21:44:49 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 29 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 7 2017 $
.Dt MAN 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -266,8 +266,6 @@ in the alphabetical reference below.
.It Sx TP Ta tagged paragraph: Op Ar width
.It Sx HP Ta hanged paragraph: Op Ar width
.It Sx PD Ta set vertical paragraph distance: Op Ar height
-.It Sx \&br Ta force output line break in text mode (no arguments)
-.It Sx \&sp Ta force vertical space: Op Ar height
.It Sx fi , nf Ta fill mode and no-fill mode (no arguments)
.It Sx in Ta additional indent: Op Ar width
.El
@@ -350,8 +348,12 @@ See also
and
.Sx \&IR .
.Ss \&DT
-Has no effect.
-Included for compatibility.
+Restore the default tabulator positions.
+They are at intervals of 0.5 inches.
+This has no effect unless the tabulator positions were changed with the
+.Xr roff 7
+.Ic \&ta
+request.
.Ss \&EE
This is a non-standard GNU extension, included only for compatibility.
In
@@ -708,12 +710,6 @@ It has the following syntax:
link description to be shown
.Pf \. Sx UE
.Ed
-.Ss \&br
-Breaks the current line.
-Consecutive invocations have no further effect.
-.Pp
-See also
-.Sx \&sp .
.Ss \&fi
End literal mode begun by
.Sx \&nf .
@@ -736,24 +732,6 @@ Literal mode is implicitly ended by
.Sx \&SH
or
.Sx \&SS .
-.Ss \&sp
-Insert vertical spaces into output with the following syntax:
-.Bd -filled -offset indent
-.Pf \. Sx \&sp
-.Op Ar height
-.Ed
-.Pp
-The
-.Ar height
-argument is a scaling width as described in
-.Xr roff 7 .
-If 0, this is equivalent to the
-.Sx \&br
-macro.
-Defaults to 1, if unspecified.
-.Pp
-See also
-.Sx \&br .
.Sh MACRO SYNTAX
The
.Nm
@@ -777,10 +755,7 @@ is equivalent to
.Sq \&.I foo .
If next-line macros are invoked consecutively, only the last is used.
If a next-line macro is followed by a non-next-line macro, an error is
-raised, except for
-.Sx \&br
-and
-.Sx \&sp .
+raised.
.Pp
The syntax is as follows:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -808,11 +783,9 @@ The syntax is as follows:
.It Sx \&SM Ta n Ta next-line Ta \&
.It Sx \&TH Ta >1, <6 Ta current Ta \&
.It Sx \&UC Ta <=1 Ta current Ta \&
-.It Sx \&br Ta 0 Ta current Ta compat
.It Sx \&fi Ta 0 Ta current Ta compat
.It Sx \&in Ta 1 Ta current Ta compat
.It Sx \&nf Ta 0 Ta current Ta compat
-.It Sx \&sp Ta 1 Ta current Ta compat
.El
.Pp
Macros marked as