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troff: what is |0 for?

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From: Brain in Neutral
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1991 22:39
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The troff manual says, "a macro to underscore a string can be written

	.ds us
	\\$1\l'|0\(ul'
	..

OK, fine.  But what is the |0 in this magic sequence?  I don't find it
described anywhere...

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