From 6e0ba2d018f01eae3942656bb22c6dbdc65b03ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Smith <xmldoc@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:54:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use "\e" instead of "\\" for backslash output, because the
 groff docs say that's the correct thing to do; also because testing (thanks,
 Paul Dubois) shows that "\\" doesn't always work as expected; for example,
 "\\" within a table seems to mess things up.

---
 xsl/manpages/charmap.groff.xsl      | 2 +-
 xsl/params/man.string.subst.map.xml | 7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xsl/manpages/charmap.groff.xsl b/xsl/manpages/charmap.groff.xsl
index c2cb59993..176140f34 100644
--- a/xsl/manpages/charmap.groff.xsl
+++ b/xsl/manpages/charmap.groff.xsl
@@ -3164,7 +3164,7 @@
    character="&#x2216;"
    u:name="SET MINUS"
    u:entity="setmn"
-   string="\\"
+   string="\e"
    u:block="Mathematical Operators"
    />
   <xsl:output-character
diff --git a/xsl/params/man.string.subst.map.xml b/xsl/params/man.string.subst.map.xml
index fb718d9dc..804f84467 100644
--- a/xsl/params/man.string.subst.map.xml
+++ b/xsl/params/man.string.subst.map.xml
@@ -32,8 +32,11 @@
   <!-- *  -->
   <!-- ******************************************************************** -->
 
-  <!-- * escape backslashes in content -->
-  <substitution oldstring="\" newstring="\\"/>
+  <!-- * escape backslashes in content; we use "\e" instead of "\\" -->
+  <!-- * because the groff docs say that's the correct thing to do; also -->
+  <!-- * because testing shows that "\\" doesn't always work as expected; -->
+  <!-- * for example, "\\" within a table seems to mess things up -->
+  <substitution oldstring="\" newstring="\e"/>
   <!-- * fix bad font-request capitalization in .SH (stylesheet artifact) -->
   <substitution oldstring="&#x2593;FB" newstring="\fB"/>
   <substitution oldstring="&#x2593;FI" newstring="\fI"/>
-- 
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