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Re: [Groff] Escaping punctuation marks in troff
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Escaping punctuation marks in troff |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:05:13 +0000 |
Hi Divya,
> Please could anyone tell me how to escape the punctuation marks in
> troff. I want to print
>
> "she said "good night" to me"
>
> When i try to parse this and convert it to trff, I can only print
>
> she said
>
> and then nothing prints after this.
Can you explain a little more what you are doing. Cutting and pasting
example input, command invocation, and output can be a succinct way of
doing this.
$ cat >divya
"she said "good night" to me"
$ nroff divya | grep .
"she said "good night" to me"
Cheers,
Ralph.