I agree. The man pages offer content that is not in the admin guide and are generally well written. Use the man pages if the admin guide leaves you wondering
Apparently you haven't read the slapd.conf(5) manpage:
If a line begins with white space, it is considered a continuation of the previous line. No physical line should be over 2000 bytes long.
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