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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mdoc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.163
retrieving revision 1.164
diff -u -p -r1.163 -r1.164
--- mandoc/mdoc.c	2010/08/20 01:02:07	1.163
+++ mandoc/mdoc.c	2010/08/29 11:29:51	1.164
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$Id: mdoc.c,v 1.163 2010/08/20 01:02:07 schwarze Exp $ */
+/*	$Id: mdoc.c,v 1.164 2010/08/29 11:29:51 kristaps Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
  * Copyright (c) 2010 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -758,11 +758,14 @@ mdoc_pmacro(struct mdoc *m, int ln, char *buf, int off
 
 	/* 
 	 * Copy the first word into a nil-terminated buffer.
-	 * Stop copying when a tab, space, or eoln is encountered.
+	 * Stop copying when a tab, space, backslash, or eoln is encountered.
 	 */
 
 	j = 0;
-	while (j < 4 && '\0' != buf[i] && ' ' != buf[i] && '\t' != buf[i])
+	while (j < 4 && '\0' != buf[i] && 
+			' ' != buf[i] && 
+			'\t' != buf[i] && 
+			'\\' != buf[i])
 		mac[j++] = buf[i++];
 	mac[j] = '\0';