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From: funk@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Funk)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Esc and Nroff
Summary: How to imbed Esc sequences in nroff source
Keywords: nroff
Message-ID: <1991May18.202457.26294@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 May 91 20:24:57 GMT
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I need to imbed some Printer control Escape sequences  in  my nroff source,
but  the formatter keeps eating the Esc character.  Have tried  
\ escaping  it to several  levels, but it keeps disappearing as soon as
nroff gets it.

I have gone  so far as to  to try faking out  a (hopefully ) unused
character and / or printer action in nterm/tab.whatever, but either 
I  get an extra space (action) or   or extra characters (character 
redefinition).

TFM is no help.  Have gone thru _Unix Text Processing_ (Dougherty and O'Reilly)
but no help.

Any help greatly appreciated.
please mail to the zweibrucken-emh1 address
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