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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/man.7,v
retrieving revision 1.94
retrieving revision 1.97
diff -u -p -r1.94 -r1.97
--- mandoc/man.7	2011/01/04 23:32:21	1.94
+++ mandoc/man.7	2011/01/25 00:40:14	1.97
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.94 2011/01/04 23:32:21 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.97 2011/01/25 00:40:14 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 4 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 25 2011 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ Other lines are interpreted within the current state.
 .Nm
 documents may contain only graphable 7-bit ASCII characters, the
 space character, and the tab character.
-All manuals must have
-.Ux
-line termination.
 .Pp
 Blank lines are acceptable; where found, the output will assert a
 vertical space.
+.Pp
+If the first character of a line is a space, that line is printed
+with a leading newline.
 .Ss Comments
 Text following a
 .Sq \e\*q ,
@@ -369,6 +369,13 @@ Thus, the following are equivalent:
 \&.PP
 \&.\ \ \ PP
 .Ed
+.Pp
+To include space characters in macro arguments, arguments may be quoted;
+see the
+.Sq MACRO SYNTAX
+section in the
+.Xr roff 7
+manual for details.
 .Pp
 The
 .Nm