> #+begin_src bash :results output :exports code :eval never-export > echo 'lf "\n"' > #+end_src
it seems that `.man` files are in troff(1) format, which uses backslash escapes up the wazoo (however that is spelled). it seems that (one way) to getting a backslash character through troff is representing it as "\e". for my *particular* instance, where the backslash is in an org src block, the below modification to `(org-man-src-block)` may work. presumably one might have backslash sequences in example blocks, or in the main text, or ...? i don't know enough to have any idea if there is some general mechanism that might solve all those. cheers, Greg ---- From 0d0dadc6b4e7f3358612f056a9eb032c1eb4145f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Minshall <minsh...@umich.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:08:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] lisp/ox-man.el: escape backslashes from org src blocks --- lisp/ox-man.el | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/ox-man.el b/lisp/ox-man.el index e808edcdf..6eb6b5ff8 100644 --- a/lisp/ox-man.el +++ b/lisp/ox-man.el @@ -748,7 +748,9 @@ CONTENTS holds the contents of the item. INFO is a plist holding contextual information." (if (not (plist-get info :man-source-highlight)) (format ".RS\n.nf\n\\fC%s\\fP\n.fi\n.RE\n\n" - (org-export-format-code-default src-block info)) + (replace-regexp-in-string + "\\\\" "\\\\e" + (org-export-format-code-default src-block info))) (let* ((tmpdir temporary-file-directory) (in-file (make-temp-name (expand-file-name "srchilite" tmpdir))) (out-file (make-temp-name (expand-file-name "reshilite" tmpdir))) -- 2.34.1 ----