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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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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.200 2011/08/17 20:34:53 kristaps Exp $
+.\" $Id: mdoc.7,v 1.201 2011/08/17 22:20:14 kristaps Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ 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.
@@ -260,9 +268,9 @@ Examples:
.It \&.Bl -tag -width 2i
two-inch tagged list indentation
.Pq see Sx \&Bl
-.It \&.br 2v
+.It \&.sp 2v
two vertical spaces
-.Pq see Sx \&br
+.Pq see Sx \&sp
.El
.Ss Sentence Spacing
Sentences should terminate at the end of an input line.