> 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"?



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