http://localhost/~hussein Contents Comments The docc utility Index

11 More cryptic commands

These commands are generally generated by programs such as sed or docx (see the docx utility). You'll rarely need to use these commands.

\NNN
NNN is a 3-digit octal number between 0 and 255 which represent an 8-bit character belonging to the ISO Latin 1 character set.

Note that if you have a 8-bit text editor, you don't need to use \NNN commands at all because you can directly type any ISO Latin 1 character.

Example:

This paragraph contains ISO Latin 1 characters such as 
the dollar sign \044, the copyright sign \251 or small e 
accute accent \351 which is heavily used <en fran\347ais>.

is rendered as:

This paragraph contains ISO Latin 1 characters such as the dollar sign $, the copyright sign © or small e accute accent é which is heavily used en français.

\<SPACE>
(the '\' character followed by a space) Non breaking space.

Example:

Word\ 1 word\ 2 word\ 3 word\ 4 word\ 5 word\ 6
word\ 7 word\ 8 word\ 9 word\ 10 word\ 11 word\ 12
word\ 13 word\ 14 word\ 15 word\ 16 word\ 17 word\ 18
word\ 19 word\ 20 word\ 21 word\ 22 word\ 23 word\ 24.

is rendered as:

Word 1 word 2 word 3 word 4 word 5 word 6 word 7 word 8 word 9 word 10 word 11 word 12 word 13 word 14 word 15 word 16 word 17 word 18 word 19 word 20 word 21 word 22 word 23 word 24.

This command may not be supported by all output formats.

\<CR>
(the '\' character followed by a carriage return) Line break.

Example:

First line.\                 
Second line.\                 
Third line.                 

is rendered as:

First line.
Second line.
Third line.

This command may not be supported by all output formats.

[]
List break. An indented line which contains only [] may be used to force the end of a list. The indentation of the line specifies which list (or nested lists) is to be ended. This command is especially useful for preformatted paragraphs.

Example:

                 * list 1 item 1

                 * list 1 item 2

                     ** list 2 item a

                     ** list 2 item b

                     ** list 2 item c

                 []

 +--
 Without the [], this paragraph would have been contained 
 inside list 1 item 2.
 +--

is rendered as:

Without the [], this paragraph would have been contained 
inside list 1 item 2.

Note that horizontal lines, figures and page breaks force all nested lists to end.

^L
(a formfeed character at column 0) Page break.

This command may not be supported by all output formats.

Example:

^L
  This paragraph should be located at the top of a new page.

is rendered as:

This paragraph should be located at the top of a new page.