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Fix some whitespace issues in generated man page. Fixes #1526

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@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ you would expect.</para>
<man>The payload database is described at <ulink url="https://nmap.org/book/nmap-payloads.html" />.</man>
<notman>See <xref linkend="nmap-payloads"/> for a description of the database of payloads.</notman>
<indexterm><primary>protocol-specific
payloads</primary><secondary>UDP</secondary></indexterm>. Packet
payloads</primary><secondary>UDP</secondary></indexterm>Packet
content can also be affected with the <option>--data</option>,
<option>--data-string</option>, and <option>--data-length</option> options.</para>
@ -897,9 +897,8 @@ Traceroute works by sending packets with a low TTL (time-to-live) in an attempt
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Tells Nmap to <emphasis>never</emphasis> do reverse
DNS
<indexterm><primary>reverse DNS</primary><secondary>disabling with <option>-n</option></secondary></indexterm>
<para><indexterm><primary>reverse DNS</primary><secondary>disabling with <option>-n</option></secondary></indexterm>
Tells Nmap to <emphasis>never</emphasis> do reverse DNS
resolution on the active IP addresses it finds. Since
DNS can be slow even with Nmap's built-in parallel stub
resolver, this option can slash scanning times.</para>
@ -2883,12 +2882,10 @@ on average the rate will stay at or below the maximum.</para>
faster than a network can support may lead to a loss of accuracy. In
some cases, using a faster rate can make a scan take
<emphasis>longer</emphasis> than it would with a slower rate. This is
because Nmap's
because Nmap's <man>adaptive retransmission</man>
<notman><link linkend="scan-methods-adaptive-retransmission">adaptive
retransmission</link><indexterm><primary>adaptive retransmission</primary><see>retransmission</see></indexterm><indexterm><primary>retransmission</primary></indexterm>
</notman>
<man>adaptive retransmission</man>
algorithms will detect the network congestion caused by an excessive scanning rate
</notman>algorithms will detect the network congestion caused by an excessive scanning rate
and increase the number of retransmissions in order to improve accuracy.
So even though packets are sent at a higher rate, more packets are sent
overall. Cap the number of retransmissions with the