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@@ -2337,7 +2337,7 @@ They are described in the reference section of this manual.
.SS Conditionals
.\" NOTE: Two quoted double-quotes are necessary to escape
.\" a single double quote in macro arguments
-.SCITECO_TOPIC """" conditional if then else
+.SCITECO_TOPIC """" "|" "'" "F""" conditional if then else
.
Last but not least, \*(ST supports so called conditionals.
They correspond to structured IF-THEN-ELSE statements
@@ -2359,6 +2359,9 @@ stack \(em the remaining arguments may be evaluated by the
Values accumulated on the expression stack by the \fIif\fP or \fIelse\fP
blocks are not discarded by the terminating single-quote.
In other words, conditionals may also return values.
+Instead of a single quote, \(lqF"\(rq can also be used to terminate
+the conditional \(em this can be handy when passing \*(ST scripts
+on the command line, e.g. after \(lq\-\-eval\(rq.
The possible conditions are defined in the following list.
Unless \fIn\fP is defined optional, the conditionals described
below yield an error if \fIn\fP is omitted: