Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

[Joerg van den Hoff]

Louis Guillaume wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to get my section numbers in the table of
> contents. This is with -ms.
>
> This is what I've been trying:
>
> .NH 1
> OVERVIEW
> .XS
> \n[H1]
> \.\n[H2]
> \.\n[H3]
> OVERVIEW
> .XE
>
>
> The above produces...
>
> 1 OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1
>
> ... in the table of contents. Why does it not produce:
>
> 1.0.0.0 OVERVIEW . . . . . .
>
> ???
>
> If I try to escape the `.' at the beginning of the line further like...
>
> \\.\n[H2]
>
> ... I get `1\.0\.0\.0' which is just strange.
>
>
> Any help would be great, thanks!
>
> Louis
some of the smarter guys will tell you how to escape the `.' at the 
beginning of a line correctly (I don't know...). but I'd use simply:

.NH 1
OVERVIEW
.XS
\n[H1].\n[H2].\n[H3] OVERVIEW
.XE
.PX


which would work fine. actually, I probably would prefer something like

.NH 1
OVERVIEW
.XS
\*[SN] OVERVIEW
.XE
.NH 2
Introduction
.XS
\*[SN] Introduction
.XE
.PX

to make the enumeration in the text body and the table of content 
consistent.


joerg
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