Re: troff request trivia questions?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 21:21

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In article <dfW1389Mru1010J0gfc@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fiasco@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Richard Gircy) writes:
>2) the mm code has many escapes with multiple backslashes, and
>   I know why, but in some case (like in one place threre are 8
>   \'s), so the question is, is there some reasonable way to
>   figure out how many backslashes are needed? Is a basic
>   rule of one pair per prevented interpretation valid?

No, the rule is that you double the number of backslashes per prevented
interpretation.  Isn't troff fun?
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Subject: Re: troff request trivia questions?
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