@c ***** Displaying text *****
@c we need this since @q{\} doesn't work with makeinfo 4.8 --
-@c say @q{@value{backslash}} instead
-@set backslash \
+@c say @q{@bs{}} instead
+@macro bs
+\\
+@end macro
@c to get decent quotes in `foo' and ``foo''
@macro q{TEXT}