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In article <3696@ptsfa.UUCP>, Ken Keirnan writes:
> 	Ditroff (all versions that I know of) does not have any special
> output command for transparent data, but it does have an escape sequence
> that allows passing source lines transparently to ditroff's output.  This
> is the transparent line escape "\!".

this works very well, so long as you don't try to use it in a diversion.
for example, using the -me macros:

	.(b
	some text...
	\!PASS THIS THROUGH
	some more text
	.)b

will *not* do what you expect.  in cases like this, escape the backslash
(\\!).
					mike olson
					britton lee, inc.
					...!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!blia!mao