> The backslash-period escape sequence in groff > doesn't work as described in documentation. > > $ cat t.man > foo > \.bar > quux > > $ groff -Tascii -wmac ./t.man | head -n 1 > ./t.man:2: warning: macro `bar' not defined > foo quux > > I think the output should have been "foo .bar quux" > and no warning.
But nroff in OSF1 from way back when shows the same behavior, so maybe it is intended for compatibility reasons, and the documentation is "wrong"?
