Hi Branden and Ingo! Here's some difference between man(7) and mdoc(7). Lk doesn't enclose the URI within <>, nor use italics or bold. By comparison, man(7)'s UR encloses the URI (but doesn't use ':').
I think man(7) behavior is more reasonable, according to URI(7). Also, mandoc(1) behaves different than groff(1), by using bold in the URI. While I don't really care about this difference, I wanted to point it out, since AFAIK, mandoc(1) attempts to be compatible with groff(1) bug-per-bug. Cheers, Alex --- $ cat foo.mdoc .Dd 2023-02-27 .Dt experiments 7 .Os alx .Sh Name .Nm foo .Nd a sample name for absolutely anything .Sh Examples int foo; .Sh See also .Lk https://xkcd.com/2109/ .Pp .Lk https://xkcd.com/2109/ formatting $ groff -mdoc -Tutf8 -rLL=70n ./foo.mdoc experiments(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual experiments(7) Name foo — a sample name for absolutely anything Examples int foo; See also https://xkcd.com/2109/ formatting: https://xkcd.com/2109/ alx 2023‐02‐27 experiments(7) For comparison: $ cat foo.man .TH a s d f .SH See also .UR https://xkcd.com/2109/ .UE .PP .UR https://xkcd.com/2109/ foo .UE which produces: a(s) a(s) See also ⟨https://xkcd.com/2109/⟩ foo ⟨https://xkcd.com/2109/⟩ f d a(s) [1]: URI(7): Writing a URI When written, URIs should be placed inside double quotes (e.g., "http://www.kernel.org";), enclosed in angle brackets (e.g., <http://lwn.net>), or placed on a line by themselves. A warn‐ ing for those who use double‐quotes: never move extraneous punctuation (such as the period ending a sentence or the comma in a list) inside a URI, since this will change the value of the URI. Instead, use angle brackets instead, or switch to a quoting system that never includes extraneous characters inside quotation marks. This latter system, called the ’new’ or ’log‐ ical’ quoting system by "Hart’s Rules" and the "Oxford Dictio‐ nary for Writers and Editors", is preferred practice in Great Britain and in various European languages. Older documents suggested inserting the prefix "URL:" just before the URI, but this form has never caught on. -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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