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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-06-25 10:51:55 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2009-06-25 10:51:55 +0000
commite75900a774004abde062c496e4c18e28708543e0 (patch)
treeb6beff4b190ad2caa9e6ea9e634d3463d03eb684 /mandoc.1
parentfc9bc78e28ac02a4916711b1222932df9694727b (diff)
downloadmandoc-e75900a774004abde062c496e4c18e28708543e0.tar.gz
Language clarification in mandoc.1 (schwarze@openbsd.org).
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@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ these rules are also applied to macro arguments when appropriate.
White-space, in non-literal (normal) mode, is stripped from input and
replaced on output by a single space. Thus, if you wish to preserve
multiple spaces, they must be space-escaped
-.Sq \e\ .
+.Sq \e\
or used in a literal display mode, e.g.,
.Sq \&.Bd \-literal
in
@@ -270,9 +270,8 @@ displays types are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
Words aren't hyphenated.
.It
In normal mode (not a literal block), blocks of spaces aren't preserved,
-so double spaces following sentence closure
-.Pq Qq French spacing
-are reduced to a single space.
+so double spaces following sentence closure are reduced to a single space
+.Pq Dq French spacing .
.El
.\" SECTION
.Sh SEE ALSO