Make backslash escape character explicit in description of record labels.

diff --git a/doc/info/shapes.html b/doc/info/shapes.html
index 4e806bf9537179c29fdf951595efe1f1e13ce968..8ca4056ca369d3f22389ad118b34af839feaa762 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/info/shapes.html
+++ b/doc/info/shapes.html
@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ which has the following schema:
   <TR><TD ALIGN=right>where <I>field</I><TD>=<TD>fieldId</I> or '{' <I>rlabel</I> '}'</TR>
   <TR><TD ALIGN=right>and <I>fieldId</I><TD>=<TD> [ '<' <I>string</I> '>'] [ <I>string</I> ]</TR>
   </TABLE>
-Literal braces, vertical bars and angle brackets must be escaped.
+Braces, vertical bars and angle brackets must be escaped with
+a backslash character if you wish them to appear as a literal character.
 Spaces are interpreted as separators between tokens,
 so they must be escaped if you want spaces in the text.
 <P>

diff --git a/doc/infosrc/shapes.2 b/doc/infosrc/shapes.2
index 093bc9a52bd805dd3ef46913e24180e361ba7e97..c22b70da6fe1853883f1e0235bb7e0713fce8772 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/infosrc/shapes.2
+++ b/doc/infosrc/shapes.2
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ which has the following schema:
   <TR><TD ALIGN=right>where <I>field</I><TD>=<TD>fieldId</I> or '{' <I>rlabel</I> '}'</TR>
   <TR><TD ALIGN=right>and <I>fieldId</I><TD>=<TD> [ '<' <I>string</I> '>'] [ <I>string</I> ]</TR>
   </TABLE>
-Literal braces, vertical bars and angle brackets must be escaped.
+Braces, vertical bars and angle brackets must be escaped with
+a backslash character if you wish them to appear as a literal character.
 Spaces are interpreted as separators between tokens,
 so they must be escaped if you want spaces in the text.
 <P>