From 2f9b9e5a5dfc27a45b662996de8fb60a87a13aa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 07:07:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man.7: Clarify that alternating typeface macros print arguments without spaces Reported-by: G. Branden Robinson Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/man.7 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.47.2