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Add explaination of backslash in typography

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otherwise noted in the surrounding text. It is also used in the explanation
sections to identify which of the commands is being referenced.</para>
<para>In some cases, a logical line is extended to two or more physical lines
with a backslash at the end of the line.</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../binutils-2.18/configure \
--prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-werror</userinput></screen>
<para>Note that the backslash must be followed by an immediate return. Other
whitespace charaters like spaces or tab characters will create incorrect
results.</para>
<screen><computeroutput>install-info: unknown option '--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir'</computeroutput></screen>
<para>This form of text (fixed-width text) shows screen output, probably as