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From: jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Esc and Nroff
Keywords: nroff
Message-ID: <1991May22.202817.7380@mtxinu.COM>
Date: 22 May 91 20:28:17 GMT
References: <1991May18.202457.26294@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May22.131730.19938@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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In article <1991May22.131730.19938@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> funk@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Funk) writes:
 > 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.

All troffs/nroffs eat escape characters. It is even mentioned in the
menual.

 > 
 > 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

Although this might work in modern versions of n/troff, the proper way
to deal with Printer control Escape sequences is in the appropriate
``terminal description files''.

	jaap