=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/man.7,v retrieving revision 1.94 retrieving revision 1.98 diff -u -p -r1.94 -r1.98 --- mandoc/man.7 2011/01/04 23:32:21 1.94 +++ mandoc/man.7 2011/02/09 10:03:02 1.98 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.94 2011/01/04 23:32:21 kristaps Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.98 2011/02/09 10:03:02 kristaps Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" @@ -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: February 9 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 , @@ -370,6 +370,13 @@ Thus, the following are equivalent: \&.\ \ \ 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 macros are classified by scope: line scope or block scope. @@ -912,6 +919,7 @@ In GNU troff, this would result in strange behaviour. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr man 1 , .Xr mandoc 1 , +.Xr eqn 7 , .Xr mandoc_char 7 , .Xr mdoc 7 , .Xr roff 7 ,