Hi, Philip Guenther pointed out to me that the acronym "XBD" stands for "X/Open Base Definitions", not "X/Open System Interface Definitions", see for example:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/ Hence, i propose the following patch to mdoc(7). If you agree with this, i will update mandoc(1) as well. Thanks for your consideration, Ingo Index: tmac/doc-syms =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/groff/groff/tmac/doc-syms,v retrieving revision 1.22 diff -u -r1.22 doc-syms --- tmac/doc-syms 3 Jan 2012 06:23:44 -0000 1.22 +++ tmac/doc-syms 22 Jan 2012 12:16:17 -0000 @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ .as doc-str-St--susv3 " (\*[Lq]\*[doc-Tn-font-size]SUSv3\*[doc-str-St]\*[Rq]) .ds doc-str-St--svid4 System\~V Interface Definition, Fourth Edition .as doc-str-St--svid4 " (\*[Lq]\*[doc-Tn-font-size]SVID\*[doc-str-St]\^4\*[Rq]) -.ds doc-str-St--xbd5 \*[doc-Tn-font-size]X/Open\*[doc-str-St] System Interface Definitions Issue\~5 +.ds doc-str-St--xbd5 \*[doc-Tn-font-size]X/Open\*[doc-str-St] Base Definitions Issue\~5 .as doc-str-St--xbd5 " (\*[Lq]\*[doc-Tn-font-size]XBD\*[doc-str-St]\^5\*[Rq]) .ds doc-str-St--xcu5 \*[doc-Tn-font-size]X/Open\*[doc-str-St] Commands and Utilities Issue\~5 .as doc-str-St--xcu5 " (\*[Lq]\*[doc-Tn-font-size]XCU\*[doc-str-St]\^5\*[Rq])