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.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any

.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above

Line 62 escape sequences to represent national language charac

names; instead, provide ASCII transcriptions of the names.

.Ss Dashes and Hyphens

In typography there are different types of dashes of various width:

the hyphen (-),

the hyphen (\(hy),

the en-dash (\(en),

the em-dash (\(em),

and the mathematical minus sign (\(mi).

Line 107 supporting it, for example in

.Fl T Cm utf8

and

.Fl T Cm html .

But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter actually

But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter requires

requires that subtlety, so in manual pages just write plain

that subtlety, so in manual pages, it is sufficient to write plain

.Sq -

to represent hyphen, minus, and hyphen-minus.

.Pp

Line 261 subsection of the

.Xr roff 7

manual.

.Pp

Spacing:

Spaces, non-breaking unless stated otherwise:

.Bl -column "Input" "Description" -offset indent -compact

.It Em Input Ta Em Description

.It Sq \e\ \& Ta unpaddable non-breaking space

.It Sq \e\ \& Ta unpaddable space

.It \e\(ti Ta paddable non-breaking space

.It \e\(ti Ta paddable space

.It \e0 Ta unpaddable, breaking digit-width space

.It \e0 Ta digit-width space

.It \e| Ta one-sixth \e(em narrow space, zero width in nroff mode

.It \e^ Ta one-twelfth \e(em half-narrow space, zero width in nroff

.It \e& Ta zero-width space

.It \e) Ta zero-width space transparent to end-of-sentence detection

.It \e% Ta zero-width space allowing hyphenation

.It \e: Ta zero-width space allowing line break

.El

.Pp

Lines:

Line 543 Accented letters:

Line 545 Accented letters:

.It \e(\(aqI Ta \('I Ta acute I

.It \e(\(aqO Ta \('O Ta acute O

.It \e(\(aqU Ta \('U Ta acute U

.It \e(\(aqY Ta \('Y Ta acute Y

.It \e(\(aqa Ta \('a Ta acute a

.It \e(\(aqe Ta \('e Ta acute e

.It \e(\(aqi Ta \('i Ta acute i

.It \e(\(aqo Ta \('o Ta acute o

.It \e(\(aqu Ta \('u Ta acute u

.It \e(\(aqy Ta \('y Ta acute y

.It \e(\(gaA Ta \(`A Ta grave A

.It \e(\(gaE Ta \(`E Ta grave E

.It \e(\(gaI Ta \(`I Ta grave I

Line 705 Their syntax is similar to special characters, using

Line 709 Their syntax is similar to special characters, using

and

.Sq \e*[N]

.Pq N-character .

For details, see the

.Em Predefined Strings

subsection of the

.Xr roff 7

manual.

.Bl -column "Input" "Rendered" "Description" -offset indent

.It Em Input Ta Em Rendered Ta Em Description

.It \e*(Ba Ta \*(Ba Ta vertical bar

Line 761 For backward compatibility with existing manuals,

Line 760 For backward compatibility with existing manuals,

.Xr mandoc 1

also supports the

.Pp

.Dl \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq

.Dl \eN\(aq Ns Ar number Ns \(aq and \e[ Ns Cm char Ns Ar number ]

.Pp

escape sequence, inserting the character

escape sequences, inserting the character

.Ar number

from the current character set into the output.

Of course, this is inherently non-portable and is already marked

as deprecated in the Heirloom roff manual.

as deprecated in the Heirloom roff manual;

For example, do not use \eN\(aq34\(aq, use \e(dq, or even the plain

on top of that, the second form is a GNU extension.

For example, do not use \eN\(aq34\(aq or \e[char34], use \e(dq,

or even the plain

.Sq \(dq

character where possible.

.Sh COMPATIBILITY

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