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authorschwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2011-01-24 23:13:56 +0000
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Better explain roff(7) macro argument quoting;
ok jmc@.
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: man.7,v 1.14 2011/01/16 02:56:47 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: man.7,v 1.15 2011/01/24 23:13:56 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 16 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.