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Re: How to print a literal '.' as the first character in a line?
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Ingo Schwarze |
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Re: How to print a literal '.' as the first character in a line? |
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Sat, 30 Apr 2022 21:32:28 +0200 |
Hi Alejandro,
Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 09:01:54PM +0200:
> I'd like to be able to print a '.' in a document, and it happens to be
> at the start of a line. I've read there's a way to change the request
> character from '.' to some other character,
Don't do that.
> but is there any simpler way to do that?
>
> Simple (and a bit stupid) example:
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> [
> .EX
> $ echo '.'
> .
> .EE
> ]
.EX
$ echo \(aq.\(aq
\&.
.EE
https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char#Accents
https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char#Periods
Yours,
Ingo