From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!hawley
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Troff confusion...
Article-I.D.: yale-com.105
Posted: Wed Oct 20 20:41:30 1982
Received: Thu Oct 21 01:44:02 1982


Our Spinwriter 3015 interprets some handy escape codes.
For example, "ESC W text... ESC &"  will print "text..." in bold face.
Rather than modify/create "term" descriptions for Troff/Nroff,
I just want to be able to define some easy macros,
like ".B" to print some text in bold face.
No amount of coaxing or backslashing will get nroff to
put out a literal "ESC" character, however.
For example,

.de B
\[W \\$1 \[\\&
..

(where "[" is the escape character)
looks like it should work, but doesn't.

How can I do this?

Or, if someone already has a description for spinwriter 3015 printers,
that would work just as well.


- Mike