date handling needs cleanup

[mandoc.git] / man.7

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index d8bd6ee7ae42626ecc6be8852b3b52449b4f254d..82ff2710899d6e8c2520781fa4b713ee7458f6ec 100644 (file)
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $Id: man.7,v 1.94 2011/01/04 23:32:21 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: January 4 2011 $
+.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.
@@ -912,6 +919,7 @@ 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 roff 7 ,