On May 13 12:02:34, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 08:26:28PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > I have just written my first manpage using the mdoc(7) syntax, > > and I have two questions. > > > > (1) .Bd > > By default, a display block is _preceded_ by a vertical space. > > Why is it that a vertical space is not also rendered _after_ > > the display block? > > Because then you would have to fix every existing mandoc page in > existence. > > I don't know if there ever was a rationale for that one.
Well, that's what I had in mind actually: what is the rationale for putting a space before but not after. So that mandoc does it like this to stay backwards compatible with roff(7) which does it like this?
