-.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.22 2009/06/22 12:04:05 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.23 2009/06/25 10:51:55 kristaps Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 22 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 25 2009 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
.\" SECTION
White-space, in non-literal (normal) mode, is stripped from input and
replaced on output by a single space. Thus, if you wish to preserve
multiple spaces, they must be space-escaped
-.Sq \e\ .
+.Sq \e\
or used in a literal display mode, e.g.,
.Sq \&.Bd \-literal
in
Words aren't hyphenated.
.It
In normal mode (not a literal block), blocks of spaces aren't preserved,
-so double spaces following sentence closure
-.Pq Qq French spacing
-are reduced to a single space.
+so double spaces following sentence closure are reduced to a single space
+.Pq Dq French spacing .
.El
.\" SECTION
.Sh SEE ALSO