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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-04-30 11:48:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-04-30 11:48:04 +0000 |
| commit | bba725a5699d77dcd70f4c7ca50955a77199c229 (patch) | |
| tree | e65f8fa0e5d4d4730e6e6e045ee77a9e8dfafadb /usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 | |
| parent | bedc36300701d44b0b1ae0bec40b0e2ee21315e5 (diff) | |
improve the description of the message "blank line in fill mode";
triggered by a misunderstanding by sashan@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 b/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 index 87d26ee1c87..1277e1ec086 100644 --- a/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 +++ b/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.161 2019/02/23 18:52:45 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.162 2019/04/30 11:48:03 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2018 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: February 23 2019 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: April 30 2019 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1699,9 +1699,12 @@ The meaning of blank input lines is only well-defined in non-fill mode: In fill mode, line breaks of text input lines are not supposed to be significant. However, for compatibility with groff, blank lines in fill mode -are replaced with +are formatted like .Ic \&sp requests. +To request a paragraph break, use +.Ic \&Pp +instead of a blank line. .It Sy "tab in filled text" .Pq mdoc , man The meaning of tab characters is only well-defined in non-fill mode: |