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RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -c -r1.6 -r1.7
*** src/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1	2009/06/21 20:03:11	1.6
--- src/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1	2009/06/23 23:40:59	1.7
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*** 1,4 ****
! .\"	$Id: mandoc.1,v 1.6 2009/06/21 20:03:11 schwarze Exp $
  .\"
  .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
  .\"
--- 1,4 ----
! .\"	$Id: mandoc.1,v 1.7 2009/06/23 23:40:59 schwarze Exp $
  .\"
  .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
  .\"
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*** 14,20 ****
  .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
  .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
  .\"
! .Dd $Mdocdate: June 21 2009 $
  .Dt MANDOC 1
  .Os
  .\" SECTION
--- 14,20 ----
  .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
  .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
  .\"
! .Dd $Mdocdate: June 23 2009 $
  .Dt MANDOC 1
  .Os
  .\" SECTION
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  .Pp
  .Ex -std mandoc
  .\" SUB-SECTION
! .Ss Punctuation
  If punctuation is set apart from words, such as in the phrase
  .Dq to be \&, or not to be ,
  it's processed by
  .Nm
! according to the following rules.  Opening punctuation
  .Po
  .Sq \&( , 
  .Sq \&[ , 
  and
  .Sq \&{
  .Pc 
! is not followed by a space. Closing punctuation
  .Po
  .Sq \&. , 
  .Sq \&, , 
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  .Pp
  .Ex -std mandoc
  .\" SUB-SECTION
! .Ss Punctuation and Spacing
  If punctuation is set apart from words, such as in the phrase
  .Dq to be \&, or not to be ,
  it's processed by
  .Nm
! according to the following rules:  opening punctuation
  .Po
  .Sq \&( , 
  .Sq \&[ , 
  and
  .Sq \&{
  .Pc 
! is not followed by a space; closing punctuation
  .Po
  .Sq \&. , 
  .Sq \&, , 
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  If the input is
  .Xr mdoc 7 ,
  these rules are also applied to macro arguments when appropriate.
+ .Pp
+ White-space, in non-literal (normal) mode, is stripped from input and
+ replaced on output by a single space.  Thus, if you wish to preserve
+ multiple spaces, they must be space-escaped
+ .Sq \e\ 
+ or used in a literal display mode, e.g., 
+ .Sq \&.Bd \-literal 
+ in 
+ .Xr mdoc 7 .
  .\" SUB-SECTION
  .Ss Input Formats
  The
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  .Sq \&.Ss
  does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with
  .Sq \&.Sh .
- .\" LIST-ITEM
  .It
  The \-literal and \-unfilled 
  .Sq \&.Bd
  displays types are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
- .\" LIST-ITEM
  .It
  Words aren't hyphenated.
  .El
  .\" SECTION
  .Sh SEE ALSO
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  .Sq \&.Ss
  does not assert a prior vertical break, just as it doesn't with
  .Sq \&.Sh .
  .It
  The \-literal and \-unfilled 
  .Sq \&.Bd
  displays types are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
  .It
  Words aren't hyphenated.
+ .It
+ In normal mode (not a literal block), blocks of spaces aren't preserved,
+ so double spaces following sentence closure are reduced to a single space
+ .Pq Dq French spacing .
  .El
  .\" SECTION
  .Sh SEE ALSO