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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-08-17 22:20:14 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-08-17 22:20:14 +0000
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Add example of comments in man.7 and mdoc.7.
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-.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.103 2011/08/17 22:16:32 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.104 2011/08/17 22:20:14 kristaps Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\"
@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ Furthermore,
macro lines with only a control character and optional trailing
whitespace are
stripped from input.
+.Pp
+Examples:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+\&.\e\*q This is a comment line.
+\&.\e\*q The next line is ignored:
+\&.
+\&.Em Emphasis \e\*q This is also a comment.
+.Ed
.Ss Special Characters
Special characters are used to encode special glyphs and are rendered
differently across output media.