Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!nott-cs!dre
From: dre@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff transparent mode
Message-ID: <510@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Feb 88 17:20:57 GMT
References: <2694@druhi.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: dre@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Evans)
Organization: Computer Science, Nottingham Univ., UK.
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In article <2694@druhi.ATT.COM> holder@druhi.ATT.COM (HolderML) writes:
>The Nroff/Troff User's Manual indicates that to have text transparently copied
>to the output, I should use the \! at the beginning of the line.  However,
>it looks like nroff is not copying the text transparently.  For instance,
>when I give it the following input:
>
>	.DS
>	\!This is shaded text.
>
>	\!\033\033\017This is shaded text.\033\033\016
>	.DE

Funny things happen with interpretation of the escape character (\) in
diversions, such as when using .DS / .DE.  It would be better to leave out
the .DS / .DE pair altogether since it is unnecessary in this instance.

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