From 3bbe9ca77bfa0a811b6ac068444fadfbb440cb8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 15:54:59 +0000
Subject: Shorten the description of .sp and move it to roff(7). If is not a
 macro but a low-level roff request and not recommended for use in manual
 pages.

---
 roff.7 | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'roff.7')

diff --git a/roff.7 b/roff.7
index fbb2ac8d..ce9d1682 100644
--- a/roff.7
+++ b/roff.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.77 2017/05/05 02:31:35 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.78 2017/05/05 15:54:59 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2015 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -1544,6 +1544,16 @@ is discouraged.
 Use
 .Xr ln 1
 instead.
+.Ss \&sp
+Break the output line and emit vertical space.
+Its syntax is as follows:
+.Pp
+.D1 Pf \. Cm \&sp Op Ar height
+.Pp
+The argument follows the syntax of
+.Sx Scaling Widths
+and defaults to one blank line
+.Pq Li 1v .
 .Ss \&spacewidth
 Set the space width from the font metrics file.
 This is a Heirloom extension and currently ignored.
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