Please get rid of these spurious backlashes in the man page:

    $ man --nh --nj fribidi | grep -F ' \ '
                  Verbose mode, same as --basedir --ltov --vtol \ --levels
                  Screen width for padding, default is 80, but if \ environment
                  variable COLUMNS is defined, its value \ will be used, --width
                  Remove explicit format codes in visual string \ output,
                  Output information about changes between \ logical and visual
                  Do not output the visual string, to be used with \ --basedir,