Re: In troff file, how to put a period at the beginnin of a line

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From: Marc Guillemont
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:36

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From article <1993Jan27.151509.28315@osf.org>, by wwang@osf.org (Weidong Wang):

> But troff treats every line starts with "." as a command line and this
> line will be ignored. I tried several possible ways and the only 
> woprk around I have now is to put "\ " in front of the period. But 
> that introduices an extra space between the citation of the period.

Simply insert "\&" (null size character) before ".":
\&.
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