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Line 95 or a single one-character sequence.

.Pp

Characters may alternatively be escaped by a slash-asterisk,

.Sq \e* ,

with the same combinations as described above. This form is deprecated.

with the same combinations as described above.

.Pp

Terms may also be text-decorated using the

.Sq \ef

escape followed by a text-decoration letter: B (bold), I, (italic), or P

and R (Roman, or reset).

.\" 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 \&. ,

Line 155 The

Line 179 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

Line 198 system, the following macros are also supported:

Line 222 system, the following macros are also supported:

These follow the same calling conventions as the above

.Nm

macros.

.\" SECTION

.Sh COMPATIBILITY

See

.Xr mdoc 7

for groff compatibility notes.

.\" SECTION

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr mandoc 1 ,

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