An oldie and a newie.

[Mark Weiser]

In article <525 at smeagol.UUCP> earle at smeagol.UUCP (Greg Earle) writes:
>... So, how do you get
>"\n"s into an [nt]roff document without them being interpreted?

Use \e in place of \.  Doubling \'s will sometimes not work because
each level of n/troff processing strips one off, and you can never tell
how many levels are happening because of macro preprocessing and so on.
\e is define to be the graphic representation of the escape character,
but is never itself treated as an escape.  So, for \n, use \en.
	-mark
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