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From: okir@monad.swb.de (Olaf Kirch)
To: Linux Documentation Project writers <LDP-L@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Some comments
In-Reply-To: <9411170357.AA01266@thokk.cs.cornell.edu> from "Matt Welsh" at Nov 16, 94 10:57:48 pm
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Matt wrote:
> 	2) You can't use "." on the beginning of a line. Not even
> 	   in <verb>. nroff thinks that you're trying to use
> 	   a request. I have tried to get around this in a number
> 	   of ways, haven't been successful. Thought that I could

You could use some other, less common character as the first control char
for the duration of the verbatim environment. Say if you use the ^ symbol,
you can do this:

.cc ^                         \" Use alternative 1st cc
any text goes here
... even dots print
^cc .                         \" Now we're back to normal

There are few cicrcumstances I can think of except printing dots in a verb
environment where one would have a "." at the beginning of a line. So you
could hide the above hack in the verb handling.

Olaf
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