diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 859710e066..2fffc9dfe2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Feb 19 00:11:05 2004  Dave Thomas  <dave@pragprog.com>
+
+	* lib/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/preprocess.rb (SM::PreProcess::handle): 
+	  Strip extraneous space from filenames in :include:
+
 Wed Feb 18 22:53:41 2004  Masatoshi SEKI  <m_seki@mva.biglobe.ne.jp>
 
 	* lib/drb/unix.rb: remove O_NONBLOCk, thanks \ay
diff --git a/lib/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/preprocess.rb b/lib/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/preprocess.rb
index 09892c2b6c..dbf4b216ca 100644
--- a/lib/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/preprocess.rb
+++ b/lib/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/preprocess.rb
@@ -20,13 +20,15 @@ module SM
     def handle(text)
       text.gsub!(/^([ \t#]*):(\w+):\s*(.+)?\n/) do 
 
+        prefix    = $1
         directive = $2.downcase
         param     = $3
 
         case directive
 
         when "include"
-          include_file($3, $1)
+          filename = param.split[0]
+          include_file(filename, prefix)
 
         else
           yield(directive, param)