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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2011-01-24 23:17:19 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2011-01-24 23:17:19 +0000
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Better explain roff(7) macro argument quoting;
ok jmc@.
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@@ -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.