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Article #2837Esc and Nroff
From: Bruce Funk
Date: Sat, 18 May 1991 20:24
Date: Sat, 18 May 1991 20:24
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I need to imbed some Printer control Escape sequences in my nroff source, but the formatter keeps eating the Esc character. Have tried \ escaping it to several levels, but it keeps disappearing as soon as nroff gets it. I have gone so far as to to try faking out a (hopefully ) unused character and / or printer action in nterm/tab.whatever, but either I get an extra space (action) or or extra characters (character redefinition). TFM is no help. Have gone thru _Unix Text Processing_ (Dougherty and O'Reilly) but no help. Any help greatly appreciated. please mail to the zweibrucken-emh1 address ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Bruce Funk INTERNET: funk@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu | |Chief, *IX Support Team __________________funkb@zweibrucken-emh1.army.mil | |USAISEC-EUR | | |Zweibruecken, W. Germany | Any resemblance between me and reality | |(guesting on osiris) | is strictly coincidental | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!funk From: funk@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Funk) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Esc and Nroff Summary: How to imbed Esc sequences in nroff source Keywords: nroff Message-ID: <1991May18.202457.26294@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 18 May 91 20:24:57 GMT Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 22