Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff

2008-06-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Stuart, > > So it seems clear that man pages should use \` or its verbose \(ga > > equivalent when they mean a shell backtick operator, ASCII character > > 96. > > Seeing as \` has been there since the early days, and assuming that > there aren't too many instances that need correcting, rende

Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff

2008-06-12 Thread Stuart Brady
Hi Ralph, > So it seems clear that man pages should use \` or its verbose \(ga > equivalent when they mean a shell backtick operator, ASCII character 96. Hmm, that's interesting. Seeing as \` has been there since the early days, and assuming that there aren't too many instances that need correct

Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff

2008-06-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Michael, > > Where do you see \(aq as desired in the Linux man pages? Only when > > -Tascii is being used? > > Yes. This is my attempt to get a reasonable rendering (on both ASCII > and UTF-8) of chars inside single quotes. (`x' is ugly in ASCII, 'x' > is not pretty in UTF-8.) > > man-pag