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| author |   Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2011-01-24 23:17:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2011-01-24 23:17:19 +0000 |
| commit | 9196add7c079579b6cd408e463c07bebac189abc (patch) | |
| tree | 64d6e12cb799c4e4210d7d52811342c6e1dc3a25 /man.7 | |
| parent | ac77718c3e81521f8ff224a24cc2492458eb93d9 (diff) | |
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Better explain roff(7) macro argument quoting;
ok jmc@.
Diffstat (limited to 'man.7')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.95 2011/01/12 10:43:22 kristaps Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.96 2011/01/24 23:17:19 schwarze 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 12 2011 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 24 2011 $ .Dt MAN 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -373,6 +373,13 @@ 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. |