Re: manunal page - uninterpretted dot

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:01:12AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > [...] '\.' is simply an another name for the dot (.)
> >
> >   See chapter 7.5 with the definition (explanation) of ".de xy":
> >
> >   ".." can be concealed as \\.. which will copy as \.. and reread as "..".
> >
> >   Which means an unescaped "\." is read as ".".
> 
> So what about this:
> 
>   \.    The same as a dot (`.').  Necessary in nested macro
>         definitions so that `\\..' expands to `..'.
> 
> 
>      Werner

  Good, I think that should avoid any misunderstanding.

  The sentence "The special behaviour ..." with the other mentioning of
'\.' must also be corrected.

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Bjarni I. Gislason