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<h4 class="subsection">14.1.4 Inserting ‘\’ with <code>@backslashchar{}</code></h4>
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<p>Ordinarily, a backslash ‘\’ is a normal character in Texinfo that can
be simply typed in your input where you need it. The result is to
typeset the backslash from the typewriter font.
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<p>However, Texinfo uses the backslash as a special character in one
restricted context: to delimit formal arguments in the bodies of
user-defined macros (see <a href="Defining-Macros.html#Defining-Macros">Defining Macros</a>).
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<p>Due to the vagaries of macro argument parsing, it is more reliable to
pass an alphabetic command that produces a backslash instead of using
a literal \. Hence <code>@backslashchar{}</code>. Here is an example
macro call:
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<pre class="example">@mymac{One argument@backslashchar{} with a backslash}
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<p>Texinfo documents may also use \ as a command character inside
<code>@math</code> (see <a href="Inserting-Math.html#Inserting-Math">Inserting Math</a>). In this case, <code>@\</code> or
<code>\backslash</code> produces a “math” backslash (from the math symbol
font), while <code>@backslashchar{}</code> produces a typewriter
backslash as usual.
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