cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 an.4 ath.4 aue.4 awi.4 axe.4 bfe.4 bge.4 cdce.4 cm.4 cue.4 dc.4 de.4 ed.4 em.4 en.4 fwe.4 fwip.4 fxp.4 hme.4 ipw.4 iwi.4 kue.4 lge.4 my.4 nge.4 nve.4 pcn.4 ral.4 re.4 rl.4 rue.4 sf.4 sis.4 sk.4 sn.4 ste.4 ti.4 tl.4 tx.4 txp.4 ...

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 06:25:37AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:56:44 +0100
> Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:32:16AM +0000, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > trhodes     2005-10-07 02:32:16 UTC
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     share/man/man4       an.4 ath.4 aue.4 awi.4 axe.4 bfe.4 bge.4 
> > >                          cdce.4 cm.4 cue.4 dc.4 de.4 ed.4 em.4 
> > >                          en.4 fwe.4 fwip.4 fxp.4 hme.4 ipw.4 iwi.4 
> > >                          kue.4 lge.4 my.4 nge.4 nve.4 pcn.4 ral.4 
> > >                          re.4 rl.4 rue.4 sf.4 sis.4 sk.4 sn.4 
> > >                          ste.4 ti.4 tl.4 tx.4 txp.4 udav.4 ural.4 
> > >                          vge.4 vlan.4 vr.4 wb.4 wi.4 xe.4 xl.4 
> > >     share/man/man4/man4.i386 arl.4 cp.4 cs.4 cx.4 ep.4 ex.4 fe.4 
> > >                              ie.4 lnc.4 ray.4 vx.4 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Work around an apparent mdoc(7) bug.
> > 
> > What's the bug?  You can only use .Nm once or something?
> > 
> > Ceri
> 
> DES has already followed up, Groff was inserting a line break
> for some really stupid reason.  So, I guess this is a good
> work around.  :)
> 
There's no bug (already told you about this when Marius noticed).
This is an intended behavior.  The .Nm macro is special while in
the SYNOPSIS section: it starts a new line and it sets up the
indentation level to point after itself, to make the following
work:

: SYNOPSIS
:      install [-bCcMpSsv] [-B suffix] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode]
:              [-o owner] file1 file2
:      install [-bCcMpSsv] [-B suffix] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode]
:              [-o owner] file1 ... fileN directory
:      install -d [-v] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] directory ...

Here, there are three synopses, so every .Nm asserts a new line.
The indentation is set so that "[-o owner] ..." starts properly
indented (to the length of "install" plus one space).

The indentation is only set once, as can be demonstrated by the
following example:

: SYNOPSIS
:      hexdump [-bcCdovx] [-e format_string] [-f format_file] [-n length]
:              [-s skip] file ...
:      hd [-bcdovx] [-e format_string] [-f format_file] [-n length] [-s skip]
:              file ...


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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