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Article #1720Re: How do you display a back-slash in nroff?
From: Vidiot
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 1990 22:31
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 1990 22:31
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In article <1990Aug7.190300.8450@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
<I have read the manual. I have experimented with .ec and with
<escaping one back-slash with one to many with no success.
<Is there a way?
Outside of a macro, ie, in the text file, it is just like you did: \\
While inside of a macro it is: \\\\ and double that for each macro defined
inside of a macro. It may actually work as \\ inside of a macro, since you
are not fetching values from a variable.
Without doing anything special to nroff when it starts, the \\ should print
a single \ without a problem. I use it all the time in troff test.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: How do you display a back-slash in nroff? Message-ID: <662@vidiot.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 90 22:31:40 GMT References: <1990Aug7.190300.8450@investor.pgh.pa.us> Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Organization: Vidiot's Hangout Lines: 16