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Re: backslashes
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Ian Jackson |
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Re: backslashes |
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Tue, 14 Sep 93 19:56 BST |
Mark Griffith writes ("Re: backslashes"):
> Jeff, et al:
> > To get one backslash: "\\" (see the user manual, section 2.1).
> [...] The manual only eludes to using the quotes and \\ without
> them produces nothing. [...]
IMHO the manual is rather unclear on this point. A single point of
reference listing all the metacharacters and what is required to pass
them through would be very useful - especially given the large number
of metacharacters in Lout compared to certain other textprocessing
languages ...
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