After Werner Lemberg accepted and committed some updates to the manual
page template contained in groff_mdoc(7), catch up with our own stuff.
In particular, allow ERRORS in section 4 and DIAGNOSTICS

After Werner Lemberg accepted and committed some updates to the manual
page template contained in groff_mdoc(7), catch up with our own stuff.
In particular, allow ERRORS in section 4 and DIAGNOSTICS in section 9.
ok jmc@

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use .At where appropriate; from Jan Stary <hans at stare dot cz>

Joerg Sonnenberger contributed copyrightable amounts of text to
some files. To make it clear that he also put his contributions
under the ISC license, with his explicit permission, add his
Copyright

Joerg Sonnenberger contributed copyrightable amounts of text to
some files. To make it clear that he also put his contributions
under the ISC license, with his explicit permission, add his
Copyright notice to the relevant files. No code change.

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Oops, add missing end of block.

Add missing description of .UR/.UE.
While here, also add .EX/.EE and .PD to the MACRO SYNTAX table.

some Bx/Ox conversion;
From: Jan Stary

For citing the names and email addresses of authors,
consistently use the style ".An name Aq Mt email".

Triggered by a question from Jan Stary <hans at stare dot cz>.
Somehow, i missed these two fil

For citing the names and email addresses of authors,
consistently use the style ".An name Aq Mt email".

Triggered by a question from Jan Stary <hans at stare dot cz>.
Somehow, i missed these two files, jmc@ agrees with the principle.

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document .PD; related to man_term.c rev. 1.88

When i moved some low-level stuff from mdoc(7) and man(7)
to roff(7) some time ago, i forgot to adjust the cross-references.
Reported by Tim van der Molen <tbvdm at xs4all dot nl>, thanks.

ok jmc@

Minimal implementation of .EX and .EE for GNU compatibility.
Do not use this, it is not portable and only defined in esr's man-ext.
For example, sox(1) wants these macros.

Support .OP, one of the extended man macros; from kristaps@.
Do not use this GNU extension, we take it for compatibility only.

In man(7), when no explicit volume name is given, use the default
volume name for the respective manual section, just like in mdoc(7).
This gives us nicer page headers for cvs(1), lynx(1), tic(1),
mk

In man(7), when no explicit volume name is given, use the default
volume name for the respective manual section, just like in mdoc(7).
This gives us nicer page headers for cvs(1), lynx(1), tic(1),
mkhybrid(8), and many curses(3) manuals.

ok kristaps@

To not break compatibility, i wrote a corresponding patch for GNU troff
which Werner Lemberg accepted upstream at rev. 1.65 of:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/groff/tmac/an-old.tmac?root=groff

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Reorganize part of the content:

1) Move the LANGUAGE SYNTAX from mdoc(7) and man(7) to roff(7),
it's common to both and it's actually roff syntax.
2) Move the MACRO SYNTAX down to the bottom, such t

Reorganize part of the content:

1) Move the LANGUAGE SYNTAX from mdoc(7) and man(7) to roff(7),
it's common to both and it's actually roff syntax.
2) Move the MACRO SYNTAX down to the bottom, such that the less
technical parts MANUAL STRUCTURE and MACRO OVERVIEW get to the top.

Getting everything to again fit together after the reshuffling
required various adjustments; also adjust and improve
the DESCRIPTIONS while there.

feedback and "go ahead" jmc@ kristaps@

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note that section macro end literal mode;
from kristaps@

add a MACRO OVERVIEW section, similar to the one in mdoc(7);
writing this for man(7), too, was suggested by kristaps@

sync to mandoc 1.11.5:
document eqn(7) and many other improvements
from kristaps@

no objection from deraadt@ against adding an eqn.7 page

in column lists, enforce the following ordering:

.Bl -column header1 header2 ... <Bl flags>

mixing things up confuses mandoc, and adding flags in can screw up the list.
this hopefully just makes t

in column lists, enforce the following ordering:

.Bl -column header1 header2 ... <Bl flags>

mixing things up confuses mandoc, and adding flags in can screw up the list.
this hopefully just makes things a bit safer (and more consistent).

(one more bit of work left and all column lists should format how we want)

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remove some pointless Pp/-compact combinations; either ingo or kristaps
will update mandoc repo

Clarify the role of .RS and fix a bogus cross-reference;
from kristaps@.

bring in lots of improvements from kristaps@;
jmc@ agrees that it's easiest to first commit it,
then tweak it in the tree

Clean up date handling,
as a first step to get rid of the frequent petty warnings in this area:
- always store dates as strings, not as seconds since the Epoch
- for input, try the three most commo

Clean up date handling,
as a first step to get rid of the frequent petty warnings in this area:
- always store dates as strings, not as seconds since the Epoch
- for input, try the three most common formats everywhere
- for unrecognized format, just pass the date though verbatim
- when there is no date at all, still use the current date
Originally triggered by a one-line patch from Tim van der Molen,
<tbvdm at xs4all dot nl>, which is included here.
Feedback and OK on manual parts from jmc@.
"please check this in" kristaps@

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As noticed by deraadt@, it goes without saying that text files
on a UNIX system use UNIX conventions, and UNIX tools working
on them expect that.
ok jmc@

Better explain roff(7) macro argument quoting;
ok jmc@.

If the first character of a free-form text input line is whitespace,
then it will start a new output line;
from kristaps@.

Add and install tbl(7);
written by kristaps@, looked over by jmc@.