Hi Werner, > > Well, `` and '' get rendered as typographic double quotes in troff, > > This is due to special, manually added, negative kern values for those > characters.
I didn't know that. Presumably though, it's still not as potentially good quality output as using the proper escape to get real “ and ” and so ``input'' like that should be discouraged, even if it makes TeX users feel at home? Cheers, Ralph.
