Re: [Groff] the is \_ escape sequence

[andlabs]

Actually, it is documented:

Page 7:
-   \Z   Z, any character not listed above

Therefore, \_ would become _, and \@ would become @, and \[ SHOULD become [
(but only in -C compatibility mode in groff)


Werner LEMBERG 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.  I've fixed this documentation glitch now in
> the CVS.
> 
> 
>     Werner
> 
> 
> 
> 

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