At 2025-02-16T18:52:49-0400, Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau wrote: > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > I'm sorry it's taken a while to follow up with you. > No worries. It's a small and (somewhat) insignificant patch. I figured > someone would see it eventually, and even if they didn't, hopefully > anyone running into the issue I was facing would be able to find my > post when Google-ing (the error message generated by the parser when > the input uses two neutral quotes/apostrophes is of no help). > > What I won't forgive is misspelling my name ;) /j.
Whoops! People do the same thing to me! I see your screen name is now capitalized and hyphenated; I'll fix the commit message accordingly before pushing. > I actually wasn't sure if the use of `\[ga]` was correct here because > there are a lot of different groff characters that seem > similar/fitting. > > In the end, I just consulted groff_char(7) (a very common activity for > me) and chose the most "obvious" option. Of course I previewed the > patch with man(1) and the output showed the right characters that one > needs to use with pic(1), so I felt it was close enough and if there > was a more fitting character someone would say something. Yes. And groff_char(7) is a good resource to consult; or at least, so I think. I've tried to make it more obviously useful to people who are there just for the "tell me what I need for ASCII keycaps, darn it!" guidance. > I'm guessing they thought it would feel most natural to continue using > the same quoting style one would use when authoring a *roff document. > Personally, I think it would make more sense to just use parenthesis > around the expression, but most *roff preprocessors try to make their > syntax as close to English as possible (a product of their time?), so > quotation is the best fit for that. Yes. Doug McIlroy pointed out to me that GNU pic accepts not just "th", but "st", "nd", and "rd" as ordinal suffixes. > No problem. Thanks for your detailed reply and all the work you do > maintaining. My pleasure. If you see any other problems, please don't hesitate to report them. Regards, Branden
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