Hi, Ingo and Ralph!

On 4/30/22 21:32, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
but is there any simpler way to do that?

Simple (and a bit stupid) example:

[
.EX
$ echo '.'
.
.EE
]

.EX
$ echo \(aq.\(aq
\&.
.EE

https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char#Accents
https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char#Periods

Ahh thanks!  (And yes, I always forget to escape the quotes :)



On 5/1/22 13:00, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Alejandro,
>
>> https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char#Accents
>> https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char#Periods
>
> Or, more generally, which may be more useful in future,
> CSTR 54 ยง4.1, https://troff.org/54.pdf, and
>
>      info groff Requests | less -j12 +/precede

Thank you too.

Branden, any chance you may add that to any groff manual page?

Cheers,

Alex


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