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 .PP
 To write a literal %, you need to escape it by writing %%.
 .PP
-If you want to add spaces to a command that is chained with a chain command, you have
-to escape %space, so you would use %%space.  This is to prevent the chain command
-from expanding the macros in its argument.
+For adding a space character after a chained command, you also need to escape % by
+writing %% instead:
+ chain command1 %%space; command2
+This is because the chain command is a macro-expanding command itself. In the
+previous example, chain expands %%space to %space, which is then expanded to the
+space character by command1.
 .SS "\s-1BOOKMARKS\s0"
 .IX Subsection "BOOKMARKS"
 Type \fBm<key>\fR to bookmark the current directory. You can re-enter this