On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Clarke Echols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If what you are picking up as user input contains text with a line
> starting with ".", insert "\&" in front of it. That places a
> zero-width space at the start of the line and puts the dot in
> third place on the line so it gets ignored as a command. Thus
> a line starting with ".rt" becomes "\&.rt".
>
> Clarke
>
Thanks for the quick response.
I feel obligated to admit that I found the answer on page 1 of the groff
man page. I spent all my time yesterday going over the escape sequences (on
page 12), and the groff_char man page. If I had just started at the
beginning I would have been fine.
I'm fairly certain that the things I need to translate are
"\" --> "\[rs]",
"\n." --> "\n\&."
Are they any other gotcha's people have experienced out there?
mike
