My thanks to each of Thomas, Peter, and Ralph for their helpful responses and
pointers to documentation. -- Steve
On Sunday, April 10, 2022, 03:42:11 AM CDT, Ralph Corderoy
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Steve,
Peter wrote:
> \& is a zero-width, non-printing character whose most usual use-case
> is to prevent groff from interpreting a period at the beginning of an
> input line as a control character.
groff's info on it:
info groff Requests | less -j15 +/'\\\&'
And more in §4.1 of CSTR 54: https://troff.org/54.pdf
It's also used by tbl to mark the point of alignment in text.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
