Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:

>> #+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.

See the attached tentative patch.