russell@muddcs.UUCP (Russell Shilling) (10/04/84)
I think I've discovered an error in (our) nroff. Using the 'ms' macros,
run this test file (tmp) through with:
nroff -ms tmp
This is the content of the test file 'tmp':
----- CUT HERE -----
.DS
.B "testy backslashes"
--------\\
\\
\\
\\
v
.DE
----- CUT HERE -----
This is the result (underline removed):
--------------------------------------------------------------
testy backslashes
--------(
(
(
(
v
--------------------------------------------------------------
This is not at all what I intended.
What is going on here, and how can it be fixed ?
My arrows are getting crunched for no known reason.
If there is a way to do this using something other
than the -ms macros, that info would also be helpful.
(I'm probably the only person in the known universe
who wants to print back-slashes with nroff.)
Russell Shilling
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===== I'm so glad to be a delta ... =====mjs@rabbit.UUCP (M. J. Shannon, Jr.) (10/06/84)
As is well documented in the Nroff/Troff reference manual, the way to produce
backslashes in your output is with the sequence `\e'.
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Marty Shannon
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