In message <ylaeilpu23.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> so spake Russ Allbery (rra): > Which backslash? > > windlord:~> nroff -man - | uniq > \f(CW\*(C`\-u\*(C'\fR > -u > > That looks exactly right to me.... Maybe your nroff is broken? Sorry, that must have been a mispaste. What pod2man produces is: \f(CW\*(C`\e-u\*(C'\fR which does have the backslash in the formatted output. The "\\" is replaced by "\\e" by verbatim(). - toddThread Previous | Thread Next