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.It Sy "invalid escape sequence" |
.It Sy "invalid escape sequence" |
.Pq roff |
.Pq roff |
An escape sequence has an invalid opening argument delimiter, lacks the |
An escape sequence has an invalid opening argument delimiter, lacks the |
closing argument delimiter, or the argument has too few characters. |
closing argument delimiter, the argument is of an invalid form, or it is |
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a character escape sequence with an invalid name. |
If the argument is incomplete, |
If the argument is incomplete, |
.Ic \e* |
.Ic \e* |
and |
and |
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.Ic \ew |
.Ic \ew |
to the length of the incomplete argument. |
to the length of the incomplete argument. |
All other invalid escape sequences are ignored. |
All other invalid escape sequences are ignored. |
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.It Sy "undefined escape, printing literally" |
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.Pq roff |
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In an escape sequence, the first character |
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right after the leading backslash is invalid. |
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That character is printed literally, |
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which is equivalent to ignoring the backslash. |
.It Sy "undefined string, using \(dq\(dq" |
.It Sy "undefined string, using \(dq\(dq" |
.Pq roff |
.Pq roff |
If a string is used without being defined before, |
If a string is used without being defined before, |
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.Nm |
.Nm |
was found in an input file. |
was found in an input file. |
It is replaced by a question mark. |
It is replaced by a question mark. |
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.It Sy "unsupported escape sequence" |
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.Pq roff |
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An input file contains an escape sequence supported by GNU troff |
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or Heirloom troff but not by |
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.Nm , |
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and it is likely that this will cause information loss |
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or considerable misformatting. |
.It Sy "unsupported roff request" |
.It Sy "unsupported roff request" |
.Pq roff |
.Pq roff |
An input file contains a |
An input file contains a |