Re: [Groff] Escaping in Groff

[Cedric Sodhi]

Hi Clarke, thanks for your reply, but this is in fact not knew to me. If
you read [1] you'll see that the problem is about passing a single
string to a macro if that string contains spaces.

On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:44:53AM -0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> On 09/01/2012 09:12 AM, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> > Hello, I wanted to bring up a problem that I had mentioned a while ago
> > [1] but to which I've found not satisfactory solution, whatsoever, yet.
> > How does Escaping actually work in Groff? Is what I said in [1] true and
> > there is in fact no consistent method and rather, quotes cannot be
> > escaped like one would do in C? I refer you to [1] in which I described
> > my problem. Thank you in advance.
> >
> > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2012-04/msg00015.html
> >
> >
> 
> I went to Google and searched "groff escape quotes", and found the
> answer in the groff(7) man page:
> 
> The escaped double quote \" introduces a comment. Otherwise, it is not 
> special. Groff provides a printable representation with the \(dq escape 
> sequence.
> 
> 
> Clarke