From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 05:07:11 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man.7: Clarify that alternating typeface macros print arguments without spaces
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man.7: Clarify that alternating typeface macros print arguments without spaces

Reported-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man7/man.7 b/man7/man.7
index 559d40db65..93ba6d5223 100644
--- a/man7/man.7
+++ b/man7/man.7
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ implementation removes this limitation (you might still want to limit
 yourself to 6 arguments for portability's sake).
 Arguments are delimited by spaces.
 Double quotes can be used to specify an argument which contains spaces.
-All of the arguments will be printed next to each other without
+For the macros that produce alternating type faces,
+the arguments will be printed next to each other without
 intervening spaces, so that the
 .B \&.BR
 command can be used to specify a word in bold followed by a mark of