Re: [Groff] Getting escape sequence

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I have been trying to get a escape sequence [i.e. esc[5h ] when page
> no = 1 by using a macro.  But these sequence get corrupts.  Would
> anyone help on this.  Is it escape sequences are not allowed in
> groff.

It's not clear to me what you really want to do.  Fact is that the
following input characters are not allowed in groff (on ASCII-based
systems): `0x00', `0x0B', `0x0D'-`0x1F', `0x80'-`0x9F'.  So the
escape character 0x1B can't be used directly.

With groff 1.19 it is nevertheless possible to *output* such bytes if
the output device is a TTY (e.g. `latin1') using groff's \N escape
sequence.  For example, 0x1B can be output as \N'27'.


    Werner