Re: [Groff] Q: .B man macros and escape

[Denis M. Wilson]

Hello All,

The line .B "\\n" turns into \n which looks like a number register
without an argument: if you try
    groff -ww -man example.1 > /dev/null
you will see the error message

example.1:4: a newline character is not allowed in an escape
name

It's not a man bug, it's troff expected behaviour, you should use
\en "or even better \[rs]" to quote the man page groff.7

Denis
    

On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:36:24 +0200
walter harms <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi list,
> i found a minor issue within the man macros.
> Most likely this is a know behaver but i found no mention of it.
> 
> As documented you can escape "\" by using "\\" or "\e\".
> This went wrong in a man page. Please try the striped down example:
> 
> .TH test 3 test
> .SH test
> .B "\en"
> .B "\\n"
> 
> with "man -l example.1" i see the \n only once.
> Bug of feature ?
> NTL i found no mention in groff_man.
> 
> re
>  wh
> 
> 


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