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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: How do you display a back-slash in nroff?
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Date: 11 Aug 90 22:31:40 GMT
References: <1990Aug7.190300.8450@investor.pgh.pa.us>
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In article <1990Aug7.190300.8450@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
<I have read the manual.  I have experimented with .ec and with
<escaping one back-slash with one to many with no success.
<Is there a way?

Outside of a macro, ie, in the text file, it is just like you did:  \\
While inside of a macro it is: \\\\  and double that for each macro defined
inside of a macro.  It may actually work as \\ inside of a macro, since you
are not fetching values from a variable.

Without doing anything special to nroff when it starts, the \\ should print
a single \ without a problem.  I use it all the time in troff test.
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