Re: [Groff] Escaping in Groff

[Clarke Echols]

On 09/01/2012 09:12 AM, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> Hello, I wanted to bring up a problem that I had mentioned a while ago
> [1] but to which I've found not satisfactory solution, whatsoever, yet.
> How does Escaping actually work in Groff? Is what I said in [1] true and
> there is in fact no consistent method and rather, quotes cannot be
> escaped like one would do in C? I refer you to [1] in which I described
> my problem. Thank you in advance.
>
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2012-04/msg00015.html

I went to Google and searched "groff escape quotes", and found the
answer in the groff(7) man page:

The escaped double quote \" introduces a comment. Otherwise, it is not 
special. Groff provides a printable representation with the \(dq escape 
sequence.


Clarke