----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: "(Ted Harding)" <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> An: groff mailinglist <groff@gnu.org> Datum: 01.09.2014 10:00 Betreff: Re: [Groff] [Groff & Heirloom] tbl problem with backslashes
> WHile not quite sure about the details of the logic underlying > the effect you describe, I think that your first line of table > entries is suppressing the end-of-line in the input. > > Try instead (with TAB where the spaces are, as you describe): > > .TS > a a . > INPUT PRODUCES > \\\\ \\\& > abc def > .TE > > where the extra "\&" introduces an invisible character in the > input, thus isolating the end-of-line from the preceding "\\". That is correct. Another difference may be that AT&T tbl embeds tbl entries in fields. That additional "layer" may reduce "\\" to "\". (But I can't access documentation for that at the moment.) Therefore groff tbl shows \\ where tbl based on AT&T shows only \. Carsten
