> As documented you can escape "\" by using "\\" or "\e\".
To which documentation are you referring?
> This went wrong in a man page. Please try the stripped down example:
>
> .TH test 3 test
> .SH test
> .B "\en"
> .B "\\n"
>
> with "man -l example.1" i see the \n only once.
> Bug of feature ?
> NTL i found no mention in groff_man.
If you say
groff -Tutf8 -man -ww mantest.man
you get the following warning:
mantest.man:4: a newline character is not allowed in an escape name
which you've probably missed. Reason is that `"\\n"' doesn't survive
multiple expansions. After the first expansion you have `\n', but
after the second expansion this tries to access a number register
which has the newline character as its name.
You have to say
.B "\\\\n"
to make it work with backslashes only.
Werner
