PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Escape Sequences
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Comment Metacharacter The comment metacharacter is a trigger character followed by an
exclamation point. It looks like this:
\!
When TFORM sees this character anywhere in a text or command line, it
considers this character and everything else on the line to be a comment;
thus, it will not print them. If it appears in the first column, TFORM ignores
the entire line. (See the description of the COMMENT command.)
Discretionary Hyphen The discretionary hyphen is a trigger character followed by a hyphen. It
looks like this:
\-
If this metacharacter is embedded in a word, and the word won't fit on the
current line, TFORM breaks it where the metacharacter appears instead of
where the hyphenation algorithm indicates. TFORM then replaces the
metacharacter with an actual hyphen. If hyphenation isn't necessary,
TFORM closes up the word as if the metacharacter weren't there.
Tabulation Symbol The tabulation symbol is a trigger character followed by a “greater than”
sign. It looks like this:
\>
When TFORM sees this character, it inserts enough spaces to move the
print position to the next defined tab stop. Before printing the next tab
stop. If there are no tab stops to the right of the current print position,
TFORM starts a new line (there is always an implicit tab stop at the left
margin). Whenever TFORM sees a tab symbol in an input line, TFORM
does a line break before processing the line, even if joining is turned on.