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--- mandoc/man.7	2010/12/08 10:58:22	1.92
+++ mandoc/man.7	2011/02/09 10:03:02	1.98
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.92 2010/12/08 10:58:22 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.98 2011/02/09 10:03:02 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\"
@@ -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: December 8 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 9 2011 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ 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 ,
@@ -370,6 +370,13 @@ 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.
@@ -527,7 +534,7 @@ 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
@@ -781,7 +788,7 @@ 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
@@ -912,8 +919,11 @@ In GNU troff, this would result in strange behaviour.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr man 1 ,
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
+.Xr eqn 7 ,
 .Xr mandoc_char 7 ,
-.Xr mdoc 7
+.Xr mdoc 7 ,
+.Xr roff 7 ,
+.Xr tbl 7
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm