I've just rediscovered that groff defines `\_', which is equivalent to `\[ul]', the underline character. Clarke writes the following in the NEWS file (for version 0.6):
The `\_' character is now automatically translated to `\(ul' as in
troff.
Funnily, this is documented neither in Kernighan's troff manual nor in
Gunnar's version of it. I've fixed this documentation glitch now in
the CVS.
Werner
