On Fri Dec 20, 2024 at 8:18 PM CET, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > In any case, as far as I know, \[Bq] and \[lq] is the way to > > obtain German-style quotes in groff. If you know of a better > > way, tell me, please. > > We had a discussion on this topic some time ago on this list, see > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2007-08/msg00115.html > > The problem is illustrated in the image attached to that message. > Adobe's Courier and Microsoft's Verdana and Tahoma all have this > problem, IBM's Courier is an exception by using a different style > of quotes (which IBM also continues to use in Plex).
>From that message I get the impression that your claim of \[Bq] and \[lq] being "terrible advice" was quite overstated; it seems to come down to a small number of bad typefaces. The only thing I find suboptimal about \[lq] as right German quote is its spacing. Any advice on how to fix that? By the way, I don't understand how you arrived at the conclusion that \[lq] and \[rq] are preferrable to \[Bq] and \[lq] in Adobe Courier; from the image it seems to me that \[Bq] and \[rq] would achieve the same effect as the IBM Courier example. ~ onf
