[9front] Re: Any way to insert code verbatim bypassing the rest of parsing in troff?

[Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>]

ygrex <ygrex@ygrex.ru> once said:
> As far as I figured it out, .DS/.DE block gives the best results but
> can I bypass its backslash interpolation somehow?

No. DS switches to a separate environment so you'd have to modify
tmac.s to do this.

> Second attempt to leverage .eo/.ec to keep backslashes, it does but
> breaks code lines, I need to insert extra empty lines in between to
> keep the lines. It looks worse than with .DS/.DE after all.

You can turn off filling and disable the escape mechanism with:

.nf
.eo
some text with backslashes like \ and \foo.

and empty lines like above.
just don't start a line with a control character:
	.this is good
\.as is this
.but not this
'or this.
see?
.ec
.fi

Cheers,
  Anthony