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From: ken@cbmcats.UUCP (Ken Farinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.3 Libraries And Devices Manual
Message-ID: <9357@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Jan 90 22:00:04 GMT
References: <3105@cello.UUCP>
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Reply-To: ken@cbmcats.UUCP (Ken Farinsky)
Organization: Commodore Business Machines, Tech Support
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In article <3105@cello.UUCP> sanders@sanders.austin.ibm.com (Tony Sanders) writes:
>In article <9325@cbmvax.commodore.com> ken@cbmcats.UUCP (Ken Farinsky) writes:
>-	This happens because troff eats backslashes, so we have to
>-	double them up.  Guess we missed a few--also look for these
>Try using \e instead of double backslashes.

Can't win, can I.  \e (backslash-e) is the escape character.  If I use
this, and then redefine the escape character, the text comes out wrong.
Double backslash will always come out as a backslash, unless it is in
a macro, or you turn off the escape character.  If you ask "why didn't
you turn off the escape character for your code examples?", well, our
macros weren't very smart.  If the escape character was off, the headers
and footers died.

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