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retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -p -r1.14 -r1.17
--- mandoc/man.7	2009/06/18 10:32:00	1.14
+++ mandoc/man.7	2009/06/25 11:35:28	1.17
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.14 2009/06/18 10:32:00 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.17 2009/06/25 11:35:28 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
@@ -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: June 18 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 25 2009 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .\" SECTION
@@ -96,8 +96,27 @@ or a single one-character sequence.
 Characters may alternatively be escaped by a slash-asterisk,
 .Sq \e* ,
 with the same combinations as described above.  This form is deprecated.  
+.\" SUB-SECTION
+.Ss Whitespace
+Unless specifically escaped, consecutive blocks of whitespace are pruned
+from input.  These are later re-added, if applicable, by a front-end
+utility such as
+.Xr mandoc 1 .
 .\" SECTION
 .Sh STRUCTURE
+Each
+.Nm
+document must contain contains at least the
+.Sq \&.TH
+macro describing the document's section and title.  It may occur
+anywhere in the document, although conventionally, it appears as the
+first macro.
+.Pp
+Beyond the 
+.Sq \&.TH ,
+at least one macro or text node must appear in the document.
+.\" SECTION
+.Sh SYNTAX
 Macros are one to three three characters in length and begin with a
 control character ,
 .Sq \&. ,
@@ -155,7 +174,7 @@ The
 .Sq \&.TP
 macro is similar, but does not need an empty argument line to trigger
 the behaviour.
-.\" PARAGRAPH
+.\" SECTION
 .Sh MACROS
 This section contains a complete list of all 
 .Nm