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:
> 
> [
> .EX
> $ echo '.'
> .
> .EE
> ]

.EX
$ echo \(aq.\(aq
\&.
.EE

https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char#Accents
https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char#Periods

Yours,
  Ingo

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