----- Original Message ----- > From: "Random832" <random...@fastmail.com> > To: "misc" <misc@openbsd.org> > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 8:09:10 PM > Subject: Re: Question about quotation rules
> Rob Pierce <r...@2keys.ca> writes: > >> Good evening, >> >> Is there a written/unwritten rule for using quotation marks? Do man >> pages and web pages follow the same rules? >> >> When would I use 'this', "this", `this', ``this'', “this“, etc.? >> >> I guess this can be both a source problem as well as a display problem. >> >> Any suggestions regarding reasonable expectations for web page/man >> page consistency? > > There are macros for quotes in manpages in mdoc(7). The rendering is > device-dependent - on terminals, it will be unicode quotation marks in > unicode locales, and ``this'' in non-unicode locales. Ok - thanks for your response. I have been looking at mdoc...
