Configuration files may include comments, prefixed by specific characters (``#``
and ``;`` by default). Comments may appear on their own in an otherwise empty
-line, or may be entered in lines holding values or spection names. In the
+line, or may be entered in lines holding values or section names. In the
latter case, they need to be preceded by a whitespace character to be recognized
as a comment. (For backwards compatibility, by default only ``;`` starts an
inline comment, while ``#`` does not.)