1IF-BEFORE-DD(1)             General Commands Manual            IF-BEFORE-DD(1)
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4     iiff--bbeeffoorree--DDdd - end of if block on its own line before Dd
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7     In an old version of mandoc(1), mdoc(7) file format autodetection failed
8     when the end of an iiff block stood on its own line before the initial
9     mdoc(7) DDdd macro.  The file was mishandled as man(7) and parsing failed
10     with unknown macro errors.
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12     If the present document looks like a proper mdoc(7) document and the
13     following display reads ``mytext'', then the problem did not come back:
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17OpenBSD                          May 27, 2012                          OpenBSD
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