Hi Branden,After Ingo mentioned \N'9' for writing a tab (ASCII HT), I read the docs about it, which surprisingly show:
\N’n’ Caused by: .de ESCq . Text "\f[CB]\e\\$1\[cq]\f[]\,\f[I]\\$2\/\f[]\f[CB]\[cq]\f[]" ..I guessed groff(1) expects one to use unslanted quotes, and that pasting that would fail, but it doesn't; the following page unexpectedly works:
.TH a b c d
.SH Slanted
a\N’9’b
.SH Unslanted
a\N'9'b
I then found the following, which would document this:
' [...]
As a second task, it is the most commonly used ar‐
gument separator in some functional escape se‐
quences (but any pair of characters not part of
the argument do work). [...]
On one hand, it is nice to show that one can use anything as the
argument separator in those escape sequences. On the other hand, it
seems a bit confusing to me (but not so much that I couldn't find it
myself). Was it on purpose? Is it a portable thing? If not, it might
be better to show examples with \(aq.
Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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