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From: funk@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Funk)
Subject: Re: Esc and Nroff
Message-ID: <1991May22.131730.19938@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 13:17:30 GMT
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I wrote:
>I need to imbed some Printer control Escape sequences  in  my nroff source,
>but  the formatter keeps eating the Esc character.  

From  several of the replies, I 'm getting the idea that my nroff may be
somewhat unique (flawed??) in eating the Esc character.

Many solutions, including fake characters that are later sed'd into Esc,
but a tip of the hat to Dan Berry for pointing out that ditroff derived
nroff's will accept \N'x' to generate the xth character of the current font. 
Thus \N'27' solved my problem
-Bruce_