backslash in manpages ???

[Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

Hello, ...

I am writting a manpage for the mldvi/activedvi package, which contains some
tex/latex commands, with initial backslash as below :

\pause

which is rendered as :

ause

altough i did try to escape it with a second \ :

\\pause.

which didn't change anything.

Also i have the following :

\wait{sec}

which is rendered as 

168, 

which makes me think that sec or wait has another meaning for man pages.

Could someone help me out, and tell me either how to correctly escape the \ in
man pages or hint me on the correct documentation about it ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther