1.\" $OpenBSD: before-Dd.in,v 1.2 2017/07/04 14:53:26 schwarze Exp $ 2.if n \{.ds mystring mytext 3.\} 4.Dd $Mdocdate: July 4 2017 $ 5.Dt IF-BEFORE-DD 1 6.Os 7.Sh NAME 8.Nm if-before-Dd 9.Nd end of if block on its own line before Dd 10.Sh DESCRIPTION 11In an old version of 12.Xr mandoc 1 , 13.Xr mdoc 7 14file format autodetection failed when the end of an 15.Ic if 16block stood on its own line before the initial 17.Xr mdoc 7 18.Ic Dd 19macro. 20The file was mishandled as 21.Xr man 7 22and parsing failed with unknown macro errors. 23.Pp 24If the present document looks like a proper 25.Xr mdoc 7 26document and the following display reads 27.Dq mytext , 28then the problem did not come back: 29.Bd -ragged -offset indent 30\*[mystring] 31.Ed 32