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| author |   Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> | 2009-06-25 11:35:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> | 2009-06-25 11:35:28 +0000 |
| commit | 2da2307a9d5545dfde44035f2048dab68ee71364 (patch) | |
| tree | f8baf50335b645b482fe3306ef800e1de0239f62 /man.7 | |
| parent | d4ae0ec7867ee424f8635709fe7df9daf4c34932 (diff) | |
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Added note about whitespace being stripped from mdoc/man input and re-added in mandoc(1).
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.16 2009/06/25 10:48:21 kristaps Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.17 2009/06/25 11:35:28 kristaps Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se> .\" @@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ or a single one-character sequence. Characters may alternatively be escaped by a slash-asterisk, .Sq \e* , with the same combinations as described above. This form is deprecated. +.\" SUB-SECTION +.Ss Whitespace +Unless specifically escaped, consecutive blocks of whitespace are pruned +from input. These are later re-added, if applicable, by a front-end +utility such as +.Xr mandoc 1 . .\" SECTION .Sh STRUCTURE Each |