June 2001 Making a Module Back Slide 38 Forward

Escape Characters


E<escape>   A named character (very similar to HTML escapes)

                E<lt>               A literal <

                E<gt>               A literal >

                E<sol>              A literal /

                E<verbar>           A literal |

                (these are optional except in other interior

                 sequences and when preceded by a capital letter)

                E<n>                Character number n (probably in ASCII)

                E<html>             Some non-numeric HTML entity, such

                                    as E<Agrave>

  • It will be filled, and maybe even justified
  • Certain interior sequences are recognized both here and in commands


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