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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Troff periods.
Message-ID: <2610017@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 88 02:16:25 GMT
References: <11414@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: HP System Architecture Lab, Cupertino
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/ hpsal2:comp.text / pc@ctt.bellcore.com (Peter Clitherow) /  6:01 pm  Oct 28, 1988 /
I need to get a period out of a macro, so that it is inserted inline....e.g.

testing the macro
XX

with a macro such as:

de XX
\\.
.

will result in:

testing the macro .
----------

Why don't you use:

   .de XX
   \&.
   ..

Seems to work for me.