[Groff] Re: the is \_ escape sequence

[Gunnar Ritter]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've just rediscovered that groff defines `\_', which is equivalent to
> `\[ul]', the underline character.  Clarke writes the following in the
> NEWS file (for version 0.6):
>
>   The `\_' character is now automatically translated to `\(ul' as in
>   troff.
>
> Funnily, this is documented neither in Kernighan's troff manual nor in
> Gunnar's version of it.

Then again, it has actually been used in the source code
of its tables. Thank you, I have added it to the text.

        Gunnar