[net.unix] How to put comments in nroff/troff source: '"\'? '..'?

neal@druny.UUCP (08/02/84)

Ok, I give up!  I tried putting ".." at the begining of each line,
but that sometimes leaves bird droppings in my output.
I tried putting '\"' at the beginning of each line, but if I
do that for several lines in a row, a large blank area appears in the
output.

So how do you put a block comment in?
-Neal McBurnett, ihnp4!druny!neal, 303-538-4852

whitten@ihnp1.UUCP (whitten) (08/03/84)

In answer to your question of putting block comments in nroff/troff,
you should put the three character sequence '.\"' at the begining of
each line.  The period must be the first character in the line, but
the position of '\"' is not critical.

					Tom Whitten
					ihnp4!ihnp1!whitten