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.\" $Id$

.\"

.\" Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>

.\"

.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any

.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above

Line 220 where it introduces a

Line 221 where it introduces a

request or a macro, and when appearing alone as a macro argument in

.Xr mdoc 7 .

In such situations, prepend a zero-width space

.Pq Sq \e&.

.Pq Sq \e&.\&

to make it behave like normal text.

.Pp

Do not use the

Do not use the character pair

.Sq \e.

escape sequence.

to escape a period because

It does not prevent special handling of the period.

.Sq \e.

is not a character escape sequence, does not prevent special handling

of the period under normal circumstances, and is only intended to

be used in the very special situation of defining a user-defined

macro that, when called, defines another user-defined macro, which

no manual page is ever supposed to do.

.Ss Backslashes

To include a literal backslash

.Pq Sq \e

Line 326 Punctuation:

Line 332 Punctuation:

.It \e(en Ta \(en Ta en-dash

.It \e(hy Ta \(hy Ta hyphen

.It \ee Ta \e Ta back-slash

.It \e. Ta \. Ta period

.It \e(r! Ta \(r! Ta upside-down exclamation

.It \e(r? Ta \(r? Ta upside-down question

.El