On Tuesday 22 April 2008 01:05, Mike Burns wrote: > Looking at the man pages I thought I could just change all "." after > a newline to "\.", and that would escape it, but this doesn't seem to > work. I created a tiny 2-line roff input program to show my problem. > > ----------------foo.t-------------- > There are many things I'd like to know about the way that roff works. > \.this is a line that starts with a <.> > -------------------------------------
You are almost there... ----------------foo.t-------------- There are many things I'd like to know about the way that roff works. \&.this is a line that starts with a <.> ------------------------------------- HTH, Keith.
