On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:25:27AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:19:33PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> > And also in man make.  The ` is an accent key, not a quote key. 
> 
> Typographically, `' were often used as matching single quote
> pairs, in systems that had to render to ASCII.  You'll almost
> certainly find that that man page rendered to postscript has
> typographical 69 single quotes.

I've just checked, and this is correct.  Try "man -t make >make.ps"
then use ggv or other postscript viewer to look at the result.
All of those "back-ticks" are rendered as proper typographical
single quotes.


-- 
Andrew
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