Newsgroups: comp.text Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: troff request trivia questions? Message-ID: <1988Dec15.212154.5690@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 21:21:54 GMT In article fiasco@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Richard Gircy) writes: >2) the mm code has many escapes with multiple backslashes, and > I know why, but in some case (like in one place threre are 8 > \'s), so the question is, is there some reasonable way to > figure out how many backslashes are needed? Is a basic > rule of one pair per prevented interpretation valid? No, the rule is that you double the number of backslashes per prevented interpretation. Isn't troff fun? -- "God willing, we will return." | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology -Eugene Cernan, the Moon, 1972 | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu