On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:06:35PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > It's horrible for an author to have to use character escapes instead of > the glyphs readily available on the keyboard for normal text; it > interrupts the flow of typing. Surely the solution should allow the > `normal' entry of quotes in this case.
Those are certainly my sentiments. > Since any code extracts, C, > shell, etc., often already need manipulation, perhaps because they > contain the escape character, it's these that should use \` and \', e.g. > > $ grep \'foo\\.bar\' \`find -name \'xxx.*\'\` Agreed -- except that \' won't work -- you need \(aq, because \' renders to an acute accent -- but this did originally work for older troff, when the apostrophe and acute accent were one and the same. Out of curiosity, is there a decent way to define \(aq to ' in a man page, provided something other than groff is rendering the page? Cheers, -- Stuart Brady
