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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-01-16 02:56:48 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-01-16 02:56:48 +0000
commit95a98d61bcc1aaaa5e6e3155c99af5cdb4a72608 (patch)
treec8a89e763ac463c3c47b1123506560d692105a37 /share/man
parent57acadac999e4338490c1732cad3c069449eca78 (diff)
If the first character of a free-form text input line is whitespace,
then it will start a new output line; from kristaps@.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/man.77
-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/mdoc.77
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/man.7 b/share/man/man7/man.7
index 2447413852e..7570ba88698 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/man.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/man.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: man.7,v 1.13 2011/01/09 15:24:57 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: man.7,v 1.14 2011/01/16 02:56:47 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 9 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 16 2011 $
.Dt MAN 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ line termination.
.Pp
Blank lines are acceptable; where found, the output will assert a
vertical space.
+.Pp
+If the first character of a line is a space, that line is printed
+with a leading newline.
.Ss Comments
Text following a
.Sq \e\*q ,
diff --git a/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 b/share/man/man7/mdoc.7
index b11539a5e90..ed8c90bdc3a 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/mdoc.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/mdoc.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.7,v 1.60 2011/01/09 15:24:57 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.7,v 1.61 2011/01/16 02:56:47 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" 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 9 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 16 2011 $
.Dt MDOC 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ character, and, in certain circumstances, the tab character.
All manuals must have
.Ux
line terminators.
+.Pp
+If the first character of a line is a space, that line is printed
+with a leading newline.
.Ss Comments
Text following a
.Sq \e\*q ,