fix problematic HTML caused by certain trailing backslashes

In cases that are **outside of a markdown code block**,
a markdown line with ending in a tailing "\" can generate
problematic HTML.

We certain trailing backslashes outside of a markdown code block
with "<br>" HTML elements, or in some cases eliminated the
need for a trailing backslash.

In a few cases some unnecessary trailing backslashes inside
of a markdown code block were removed.

The following markdown files were changed in this commit:

```
1990/dds/README.md
1990/jaw/README.md
1991/ant/README.md
1991/rince/README.md
1991/westley/README.md
1992/vern/README.md
1992/westley/README.md
1998/schweikh1/README.md
2004/anonymous/README.md
2005/sykes/README.md
2006/toledo2/README.md
2011/toledo/README.md
2012/endoh2/README.md
2012/tromp/README.md
2013/robison/README.md
2015/hou/README.md
2015/howe/README.md
2015/schweikhardt/README.md
2018/burton1/README.md
2018/burton2/README.md
2018/ferguson/README.md
2018/vokes/README.md
2020/ferguson1/README.md
```

Performed `make www` to test these changes.

2018/burton1/README.md

@@ -219,13 +219,15 @@ It pre-dates `varargs.h`, and assembly was the only way to gain access to the
 variable argument types.  The first edition _The C Programming Language_, 1978,
 page 71, remarks:
 
-> By the way, there is no entirely satisfactory way to write a portable function
-> that accepts a variable number of arguments, because there is no portable way
-> for the called function to determine how many arguments where actually passed
-> to it in a given call.
-> ...\
-> `printf`, the most common C function with a variable number of arguments,
-> ... is also non-portable and must be modified for different environments.
+```
+    By the way, there is no entirely satisfactory way to write a portable function
+    that accepts a variable number of arguments, because there is no portable way
+    for the called function to determine how many arguments where actually passed
+    to it in a given call.
+    ...
+    `printf`, the most common C function with a variable number of arguments,
+    ... is also non-portable and must be modified for different environments.
+```
 
 It is fascinating to explore the roots of C through the history of the operating
 system it was birthed within.  C is often criticized as a difficult, inscrutable