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.Sq \e*(Ba

.Pq vertical bar .

.Ss Whitespace

In non-literal free-form lines, consecutive blocks of whitespace are

Whitespace consists of the space character.

pruned from input and added later in the output filter, if applicable:

In free-form lines, whitespace is preserved within a line; un-escaped

.Bd -literal -offset indent

trailing spaces are stripped from input (unless in a literal context).

These spaces are pruned from input.

Blank free-form lines, which may include whitespace, are only permitted

\&.Bd \-literal

within literal contexts.

These are not.

\&.Ed

.Ed

.Pp

In macro lines, whitespace delimits arguments and is discarded. If

arguments are quoted, whitespace within the quotes is retained.

.Pp

Blank lines are only permitted within literal contexts, as are lines

containing only whitespace. Tab characters are only acceptable when

delimiting

.Sq \&Bl \-column

or when in a literal context.

.Ss Quotation

Macro arguments may be quoted with a double-quote to group

space-delimited terms or to retain blocks of whitespace. A quoted

Line 1823 are aliases, as are

Line 1814 are aliases, as are

.Fl literal

and

.Fl unfilled .

.It

In mandoc, blocks of whitespace are stripped from both macro and

free-form text lines (except when in literal mode); groff would retain

whitespace in free-form text lines.

.It

Historic groff has many un-callable macros. Most of these (excluding

some block-level macros) are now callable.