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| author |   Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2018-08-18 21:37:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2018-08-18 21:37:01 +0000 |
| commit | 706d9945acc722dd472698b7a9a81d213d8d9e0f (patch) | |
| tree | 38a7ede6a11442f497a76006cb1f6834974ea3cd /roff.7 | |
| parent | 259fee714b55e40e21cea678c54f18c63f478063 (diff) | |
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support the highly surprising escape sequence \# (line continuation
with comment); used for example by gropdf(1)
Diffstat (limited to 'roff.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | roff.7 | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.99 2018/08/16 14:07:11 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.100 2018/08/18 21:37:01 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: August 16 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 18 2018 $ .Dt ROFF 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1819,6 +1819,12 @@ is an unpaddable space-sized non-breaking space character; see .Ss \e\(dq The rest of the input line is treated as .Sx Comments . +.Ss \e# +Line continuation with comment. +Discard the rest of the physical input line and continue the logical +input line on the next physical input line, joining the text on +both lines together as if it were on a single input line. +This is a groff extension. .Ss \e% Hyphenation allowed at this point of the word; ignored by .Xr mandoc 1 . |