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-rw-r--r--gnu/usr.bin/groff/tbl/tbl.19
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tbl/tbl.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tbl/tbl.1
index bbf79bc75f3..3ce3848e904 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tbl/tbl.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tbl/tbl.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: tbl.1,v 1.3 2003/03/01 14:40:49 espie Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tbl.1,v 1.4 2003/03/01 23:53:03 wcobb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Marc Espie
.\"
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ Individual data items within the table may override these specifications.
.El
.Ss TABLE DATA
Each table line is normally entered as one line of data.
-Long lines may be broken, by using \ as a continuation character.
+Long lines may be broken, by using \\ as a continuation character.
Table entries are separated with tabulations (or with the character
specified in the
.Ar tabs
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ There a few exceptions:
.Bl -tag -width l
.It "Embedded troff commands"
An input line beginning with a
-.Sq .
+.Sq \&.
followed by anything but a number is passed through to
troff unchanged.
For instance,
@@ -258,8 +258,7 @@ shipping with
is part of
.Xr groff 1 ,
and features a few differences from classical
-.Ux
-.Nm .
+.Ux .
.Pp
For instance, the output of GNU
.Nm