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@@ -131,11 +131,6 @@ also be text-decorated using the .Sq \ef escape followed by an indicator: B (bold), I, (italic), or P and R (Roman, or reset). This form is not recommended. -.Pp -Lastly, a standalone double-quote may be produced in a macro line by -using two consecutive double-quotes within a quoted literal. See -.Sx Quotation -for details. .\" SUB-SECTION---------------------- .Ss Whitespace In non-literal free-form lines, consecutive blocks of whitespace are @@ -162,18 +157,8 @@ or when in a literal context. Macro arguments may be quoted with a double-quote to group space-delimited terms or to retain blocks of whitespace. A quoted argument begins with a double-quote preceded by whitespace. The next -double-quote that is -.Em -preceded by a double-quote terminates the term, regardless of -surrounding whitespace. Thus, the following construction produces -.Sq "a""b" , -since, as mentioned in -.Sx Special Characters , -two consecutive double-quotes in a quoted literal produce a standalone -double-quote: -.Bd -literal -offset indent -\&.Em "a""""b" -.Ed +double-quote not pair-wise adjacent to another double-quote terminates +the literal, regardless of surrounding whitespace. .\" PARAGRAPH------------ .Pp This produces tokens @@ -471,6 +456,11 @@ file re-write .Bl -dash -compact .\" LIST-ITEM .It +In quoted literals, groff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce a +standalone double-quote in formatted output. This idiosyncratic +behaviour is no longer applicable. +.\" LIST-ITEM +.It The .Sq \&sp macro does not accept negative numbers. |