> Is there anything I can do to get groff to leave that escape > character (ASCII 27/033) in the output?
As I understand the groff info file, this is very likely impossible -- invalid characters (one of which is the ascii escape character) are removed on input. However: if you encode the escape as \N'27', nroff outputs a real ascii escape character. So if you're generating the input by some program, make it output \N'27' instead. If not, you can try to preprocess the input with sed: sed -e "s/^[/\\\\N'27'/g" file | nroff | od -c 0000000 Y Y Y 033 Z Z Z \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 0000020 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n * 0000100 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 0000111 where "^[" is supposed to be an ascii escape character.
