At 2017-12-03T09:06:52-0500, Mike Bianchi wrote: > > I also find it funny if I ever need to talk about money in dollars: a > > dollar sign ($) is obviously needed. Tried escaping the $ like `\$', but > > that ..obviously.. didn't work. > > But it seemed ..so.. close, so I tried this: > .char \[$] "$ > Dollar \[$] > > The special character \[$] is defined as the string "$" . > NOTE that the .char statement _requires_ that the trailing " not be present.
There is already a character escape for the dollar sign. $ echo 'You are Lobby Lud and I claim my \[Do]5.' | nroff| head -n 1 You are Lobby Lud and I claim my $5. If compatibility with classical troff is desired, \(Do can be used. -- Regards, Branden
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