The backslash may be used to escape a single punctuation character. The punctuation immediately after the backslash is passed without any processing. This is useful when we need to escape QuickBook punctuations such as [ and ]. For example, how do you escape the triple quote? Simple: \'\'\'

\n has a special meaning. It is used to generate line breaks.

	Warning
	\n is now deprecated, use [br] instead. Although, use it sparingly as it can generated invalid docbook

The escaped space: \ also has a special meaning. The escaped space is removed from the output.