Re: [Groff] Trying to escape user input.

[Keith Marshall]

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 01:05, Mike Burns wrote:
> Looking at the man pages I thought I could just change all "." after
> a newline to "\.", and that would escape it, but this doesn't seem to
> work.  I created a tiny 2-line roff input program to show my problem.
>
> ----------------foo.t--------------
> There are many things I'd like to know about the way that roff works.
> \.this is a line that starts with a <.>
> -------------------------------------

You are almost there...

----------------foo.t--------------
There are many things I'd like to know about the way that roff works.
\&.this is a line that starts with a <.>
-------------------------------------

HTH,
Keith.