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@, &, $, {, and } don't need to be escaped.

--- a/src/asm/rgbasm.5

+++ b/src/asm/rgbasm.5

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@

 type thing you can quite easily write an intelligent macro (called

 .Ic ORG

 for example) that uses

-.Ic \@

+.Ic @

 for the section name and determines

 correct section type etc as arguments for

 .Ic SECTION .

@@ -452,17 +452,17 @@

 This is fine.

 That is, if you only use the macro once per scope.

 To get around this problem there is a special label string equate called

-.Ic \[rs]\@

+.Ic \[rs]@

 that you can append to your labels and it will then expand to a unique string.

 .Pp

-.Ic \[rs]\@

+.Ic \[rs]@

 also works in REPT-blocks should you have any loops there.

 .Bd -literal -offset indent

 LoopyMacro: MACRO

             xor  a,a

-\&.loop\[rs]\@     ld   [hl+],a

+\&.loop\[rs]@     ld   [hl+],a

             dec  c

-            jr   nz,.loop\[rs]\@

+            jr   nz,.loop\[rs]@

             ENDM

 .Ed

 .Pp

@@ -495,9 +495,9 @@

             ld   hl,\[rs]1

             ld   c,\[rs]2

             xor  a,a

-\&.loop\[rs]\@     ld   [hl+],a

+\&.loop\[rs]@     ld   [hl+],a

             dec  c

-            jr   nz,.loop\[rs]\@

+            jr   nz,.loop\[rs]@

             ENDM

 .Ed

 .Pp

@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@

 .Pp

 .Bl -column -offset indent ".Sy String" ".Sy String" ".Sy String"

 .It Sy Type Ta Sy Name Ta Ta Sy Contents

-.It Ic EQU Ta Ic \@ Ta Ta PC value

+.It Ic EQU Ta Ic @ Ta Ta PC value

 .It Ic EQU Ta Ic _PI Ta Ta Fixed point \[*p]

 .It Ic SET Ta Ic _RS Ta Ta _RS Counter

 .It Ic EQU Ta Ic _NARG Ta Ta Number of arguments passed to macro

@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@

 .Ic REPT

 is also very useful in recursive macros and, as in macros, you can also use the

 special label operator

-.Ic \[rs]\@ .

+.Ic \[rs]@ .

 REPT-blocks can be nested.

 .Ss Aborting the assembly process

 .Ic FAIL

@@ -883,11 +883,11 @@

 .Pp

 .Bl -dash -compact

 .It

-Hexadecimal: \(Do0123456789ABCDEF. Case-insensitive

+Hexadecimal: $0123456789ABCDEF. Case-insensitive

 .It

 Decimal: 0123456789

 .It

-Octal: \*(Am01234567

+Octal: &01234567

 .It

 Binary: %01

 .It

@@ -1001,16 +1001,16 @@

 .It Li \[rs]\[rs] Ta Backslash

 .It Li \[rs]" Ta Double quote

 .It Li \[rs], Ta Comma

-.It Li \[rs]\[lC] Ta Curly bracket left

-.It Li \[rs]\[rC] Ta Curly bracket right

+.It Li \[rs]{ Ta Curly bracket left

+.It Li \[rs]} Ta Curly bracket right

 .It Li \[rs]n Ta Newline ($0A)

 .It Li \[rs]t Ta Tab ($09)

 .It Li \[rs]1 - \[rs]9 Ta Macro argument (Only the body of a macros)

-.It Li \[rs]\@ Ta Label name suffix (Only in the body of macros and repts)

+.It Li \[rs]@ Ta Label name suffix (Only in the body of macros and repts)

 .El

 .Pp

 A funky feature is

-.Sy \[lC]symbol\[rC]

+.Sy {symbol}

 withing a string.

 This will examine the type of the symbol and insert its value accordingly.

 If symbol is a string symbol, the symbols value is simply copied.

@@ -1018,11 +1018,11 @@

 inserted as a string.

 .Pp

 HINT: The

-.Sy \[lC]symbol\[rC]

+.Sy {symbol}

 construct can also be used outside strings.

 The symbol's value is again inserted as a string.

 This is just a short way of doing

-.Dq \[lC]symbol\[rC] .

+.Dq {symbol} .

 .Pp

 Whenever the macro-language expects a string you can actually use a string

 expression.

@@ -1079,9 +1079,9 @@

 .Pp

 .Bl -column ".Sy String" ".Sy String"

 .It Sy Name Ta Ta Ta Sy Operation

-.It Li BANK(\@/str/lbl) Ta Returns a bank number.

+.It Li BANK(@/str/lbl) Ta Returns a bank number.

 If the argument is the symbol

-.Ic \@,

+.Ic @ ,

 this function returns the bank of the current section.

 If the argument is a string, it returns the bank of the section that has that

 name.