Hi onf, On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 02:21:00AM +0100, onf wrote: > Hi Alejandro, > > On Fri Dec 20, 2024 at 12:39 AM CET, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > I prefer \[lq] and \[rq] over .QS and .QE. BTW, that's that '*' mean? > > That's string interpolation syntax. From groff(7): > > Strings > groff supports strings primarily for user convenience. > Conventionally, if one would define a macro only to interpolate > a small amount of text, without invoking requests or calling any > other macros, one defines a string instead. Only one string is > predefined by the language. > > \*[.T] Contains the name of the output device (for > example, “utf8” or “pdf”). > > The .ds request creates a string with a specified name and > contents. > > I assume the reason for using the strings `lq` and `rq` instead of > characters of the same name is that the strings can be defined > differently based on the current locale, so that English users get > \[lq] and \[rq] while German users get \[Bq] and \[lq] etc.
Ahhh, thanks! Cheers, Alex > > ~ onf -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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