From 9196add7c079579b6cd408e463c07bebac189abc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:17:19 +0000
Subject: Better explain roff(7) macro argument quoting; ok jmc@.

---
 man.7 | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man.7')

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index 66f7fb01..424286a0 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -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.
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