=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/roff.7,v retrieving revision 1.96 retrieving revision 1.97 diff -u -p -r1.96 -r1.97 --- mandoc/roff.7 2018/04/10 00:52:30 1.96 +++ mandoc/roff.7 2018/08/10 04:41:25 1.97 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.96 2018/04/10 00:52:30 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.97 2018/08/10 04:41:25 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Ingo Schwarze @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 10 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 10 2018 $ .Dt ROFF 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Unescaped trailing spaces are stripped from text line literal context. In general, trailing whitespace on any input line is discouraged for reasons of portability. -In the rare case that a blank character is needed at the end of an +In the rare case that a space character is needed at the end of an input line, it may be forced by .Sq \e\ \e& . .Pp @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ produces .Pp in the input stream, and thus in the output: \fI\^XtFree\^\fP. Each occurrence of \e\e$* is replaced with all the arguments, -joined together with single blank characters. +joined together with single space characters. .Pp Since macros and user-defined strings share a common string table, defining a macro @@ -1346,8 +1346,11 @@ Currently unsupported. Temporarily turn off line numbering. Currently unsupported. .It Ic \&nop Ar body -Execute the rest of the input line as a request or macro line. -Currently unsupported. +Execute the rest of the input line as a request, macro, or text line, +skipping the +.Ic \&nop +request and any space characters immediately following it. +This is mostly used to indent text lines inside macro definitions. .It Ic \&nr Ar register Oo Cm + Ns | Ns Cm - Oc Ns Ar expression Op Ar stepsize Define or change a register. A register is an arbitrary string value that defines some sort of state,