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From: jaffe@hoss.unl.edu (David Jaffe)
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Subject: can't get \ in a \special
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Date: 15 Mar 91 21:14:18 GMT
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How do I get a backslash to be outputted as part of a special?  The only
thing I can come up with is to change catcodes before the special, which
is not an entirely satisfactory solution.  I want the string (f\(x\)) to
be outputted, which postscript will subsequently convert into the string
f(x).

\special{   ...     (f\(x\))    ...   }

obviously won't work.

David Jaffe (jaffe@hoss.unl.edu)
University of Nebraska -- Lincoln