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@@ -65,12 +65,14 @@ A macro line with only a control character and comment escape,
is also ignored.
Macro lines with only a control character and optional whitespace are
stripped from input.
-.Ss Reserved Characters
-Within a macro line, the following characters are reserved:
+.Ss Reserved Terms
+Within a macro line, the following terms are reserved:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
.It \&.
.Pq period
+.It \e.
+.Pq escaped period
.It \&,
.Pq comma
.It \&:
@@ -91,14 +93,15 @@ Within a macro line, the following characters are reserved:
.Pq exclamation
.It \&|
.Pq vertical bar
+.It \e*(Ba
+.Pq reserved-word vertical bar
.El
.Pp
-Use of reserved characters is described in
+Use of reserved terms is described in
.Sx MACRO SYNTAX .
-For general use in macro lines, these characters can either be escaped
-with a non-breaking space
-.Pq Sq \e&
-or, if applicable, an appropriate escape sequence can be used.
+For general use in macro lines, these can be escaped with a non-breaking
+space
+.Pq Sq \e& .
.Ss Special Characters
Special characters may occur in both macro and free-form lines.
Sequences begin with the escape character
@@ -706,7 +709,7 @@ and/or tail
.El
.Ss Block partial-implicit
Like block full-implicit, but with single-line scope closed by
-.Sx Reserved Characters
+.Sx Reserved Terms
or end of line.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
\&.Yo \(lB\-arg \(lBval...\(rB\(rB \(lBbody...\(rB \(lBres...\(rB
@@ -739,7 +742,7 @@ section line, else it is
.Sx In-line .
.Ss In-line
Closed by
-.Sx Reserved Characters ,
+.Sx Reserved Terms ,
end of line, fixed argument lengths, and/or subsequent macros.
In-line macros have only text children.
If a number (or inequality) of arguments is