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Article #1758Re: How do you display a back-slash in nroff?
From: Tony L. Hansen
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 05:50
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 05:50
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< From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) < 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. There's never a need to use multiple backslashes to get a backslash to print. Just use \e to print the "current escape character", which is always the backslash unless the .ec command is issued. Tony Hansen att!pegasus!hansen, attmail!tony hansen@pegasus.att.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!dptg!pegasus!hansen From: hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: How do you display a back-slash in nroff? Summary: use \e to display a backslash Keywords: nroff, troff Message-ID: <4978@pegasus.ATT.COM> Date: 18 Aug 90 05:50:06 GMT References: <1990Aug7.190300.8450@investor.pgh.pa.us> <662@vidiot.UUCP> Reply-To: hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs NJ USA Lines: 20