Re: Strange formatting of literal block in bc(1) man page

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:

> 	define py (y) { print "--->", y, "<---", "\n"; }

>            define py (y) { print "--->", y, "<---", "0; }

   Backslashes
     To include a literal backslash (\) into the output, use the (\e)
     escape sequence.

     Note that doubling it (\\) is not the right way to output a backslash.
     Because mandoc(1) does not implement full roff(7) functionality, it may
     work with mandoc(1), but it may have weird effects on complete roff(7)
     implementations.

The sequence \n" retrieves the numeric register named ", which probably
isn't used and has the value 0.