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Line 53 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 ,

Line 370 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.

Line 424 The syntax is as follows:

Line 431 The syntax is as follows:

.It Sx \&br Ta 0 Ta current Ta compat

.It Sx \&fi Ta 0 Ta current Ta compat

.It Sx \&ft Ta 1 Ta current Ta compat

.It Sx \&i Ta n Ta current Ta compat

.It Sx \&in Ta 1 Ta current Ta compat

.It Sx \&na Ta 0 Ta current Ta compat

.It Sx \&nf Ta 0 Ta current Ta compat

.It Sx \&r Ta 0 Ta current Ta compat

.It Sx \&sp Ta 1 Ta current Ta compat

.El

.Pp

Line 509 The optional arguments specify which release it is fro

Line 514 The optional arguments specify which release it is fro

Text is rendered in bold face.

.Pp

See also

.Sx \&I ,

.Sx \&I

.Sx \&R ,

.Sx \&b ,

.Sx \&i ,

and

.Sx \&r .

.Sx \&R .

.Ss \&BI

Text is rendered alternately in bold face and italic.

Thus,

Line 532 Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output.

Line 534 Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output.

.Pp

Examples:

.Pp

.D1 \&.BI bold italic bold italic

.Dl \&.BI bold italic bold italic

.Pp

The output of this example will be emboldened

.Dq bold

Line 591 and

Line 593 and

Text is rendered in italics.

.Pp

See also

.Sx \&B ,

.Sx \&B

.Sx \&R ,

.Sx \&b ,

.Sx \&i ,

and

.Sx \&r .

.Sx \&R .

.Ss \&IB

Text is rendered alternately in italics and bold face.

Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output.

Line 692 and

Line 691 and

Text is rendered in roman (the default font).

.Pp

See also

.Sx \&I ,

.Sx \&I

.Sx \&B ,

.Sx \&b ,

.Sx \&i ,

and

.Sx \&r .

.Sx \&B .

.Ss \&RB

Text is rendered alternately in roman (the default font) and bold face.

Whitespace between arguments is omitted in output.

Line 792 manual section.

Line 788 manual section.

.Pp

Examples:

.Pp

.D1 \&.TH CVS 5 "1992-02-12" GNU

.Dl \&.TH CVS 5 "1992-02-12" GNU

.Ss \&TP

Begin a paragraph where the head, if exceeding the indentation width, is

followed by a newline; if not, the body follows on the same line after a

Line 836 Change the current font mode.

Line 832 Change the current font mode.

See

.Sx Text Decoration

for a listing of available font modes.

.Ss \&i

Italicise arguments.

Synonym for

.Sx \&I .

.Pp

See also

.Sx \&B ,

.Sx \&I ,

.Sx \&R .

.Sx \&b ,

and

.Sx \&r .

.Ss \&in

Indent relative to the current indentation:

.Pp

Line 865 Begin literal mode: all subsequent free-form lines hav

Line 849 Begin literal mode: all subsequent free-form lines hav

line boundaries preserved.

May be ended by

.Sx \&fi .

.Ss \&r

Fonts and styles (bold face, italics) reset to roman (default font).

.Pp

See also

.Sx \&B ,

.Sx \&I ,

.Sx \&R ,

.Sx \&b ,

and

.Sx \&i .

.Ss \&sp

Insert vertical spaces into output with the following syntax:

.Bd -filled -offset indent

Line 946 In GNU troff, this would result in strange behaviour.

Line 920 In GNU troff, this would result in strange behaviour.

.Xr man 1 ,

.Xr mandoc 1 ,

.Xr mandoc_char 7 ,

.Xr mdoc 7

.Xr mdoc 7 ,

.Xr roff 7 ,

.Xr tbl 7

.Sh HISTORY

The

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