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Line 67 line termination. |
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Blank lines are acceptable; where found, the output will assert a |
Blank lines are acceptable; where found, the output will assert a |
vertical space. |
vertical space. |
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.Sq \ec |
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escape is common in historical |
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.Nm |
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documents; if encountered at the end of a word, it ensures that the |
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subsequent word isn't off-set by whitespace. |
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.Ss Comments |
.Ss Comments |
Text following a |
Text following a |
.Sq \e\*" , |
.Sq \e\*" , |
Line 118 A numerical representation 3, 2, or 1 (bold, italic, a |
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Line 110 A numerical representation 3, 2, or 1 (bold, italic, a |
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respectively) may be used instead. A text decoration is only valid, if |
respectively) may be used instead. A text decoration is only valid, if |
specified in free-form text, until the next macro invocation; if |
specified in free-form text, until the next macro invocation; if |
specified within a macro, it's only valid until the macro closes scope. |
specified within a macro, it's only valid until the macro closes scope. |
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Note that macros like |
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.Sx \&BR |
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open and close a font scope with each argument. |
.Pp |
.Pp |
Text may also be sized with the |
Text may also be sized with the |
.Sq \es |
.Sq \es |
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.Sq \es |
.Sq \es |
and |
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.Sq \ef |
.Sq \ef |
attributes are forgotten when exiting a subsequent (or current) macro |
attributes are forgotten when entering or exiting a macro block. |
invocation. |
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.Ss Whitespace |
.Ss Whitespace |
Line 925 End literal mode begun by |
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.Ss \&i |
.Ss \&i |
Italicise arguments. If no arguments are specified, all subsequent text |
Italicise arguments. Synonym for |
is italicised. |
.Sx \&I . |
.Pp |
.Pp |
See also |
See also |
.Sx \&B , |
.Sx \&B , |
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This section documents compatibility with other roff implementations, at |
This section documents compatibility with other roff implementations, at |
this time limited to |
this time limited to |
.Xr groff 1 . |
.Xr groff 1 . |
.Bl -hyphen |
.Pp |
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.Bl -dash -compact |
.It |
.It |
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macro will italicise all subsequent text if a line argument is not |
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provided. This behaviour is not implemented. |
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In quoted literals, groff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce a |
In quoted literals, groff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce a |
standalone double-quote in formatted output. This idiosyncratic |
standalone double-quote in formatted output. This idiosyncratic |
behaviour is no longer applicable. |
behaviour is no longer applicable. |
.It |
.It |
The |
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.Sq sp |
.Sx \&sp |
macro does not accept negative numbers. |
macro does not accept negative numbers. |
.It |
.It |
Blocks of whitespace are stripped from both macro and free-form text |
Blocks of whitespace are stripped from both macro and free-form text |