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- From: mgu@chorus.fr (Marc Guillemont)
- Newsgroups: comp.text
- Subject: Re: In troff file, how to put a period at the beginnin of a line
- Message-ID: <1917@chorus.chorus.fr>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 07:36:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.151509.28315@osf.org>
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- From article <1993Jan27.151509.28315@osf.org>, by wwang@osf.org (Weidong Wang):
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- > But troff treats every line starts with "." as a command line and this
- > line will be ignored. I tried several possible ways and the only
- > woprk around I have now is to put "\ " in front of the period. But
- > that introduices an extra space between the citation of the period.
-
- Simply insert "\&" (null size character) before ".":
- \&.
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