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Re: [Groff] another groff/troff compatibility question
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Andrew Koenig |
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Re: [Groff] another groff/troff compatibility question |
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:37:58 -0400 (EDT) |
Larry> I assume you mean special characters, not strings (strings would be
Larry> \*(``). For what it's worth, they don't seem to be in my version of
Larry> troff which came from SysV/386, so it's not real new, but it's not
Larry> ancient, either. So it sounds like they're recent additions -- groff's
Larry> \(lq and \(rq would appear to be synonymous.
They seem to have come in as part of PostScript support.
I do indeed mean that they are special characters.
It's nice to know that \(lq and \(rq are synonyms, but it
would be even nicer if a future version of groff could support
\(`` and \(''. I am trying to get an existing document, which
includes \(`` and \('' characters in it, to work with both troff
and groff without changing the document itself. I can change
the macros that it uses, but that won't help me here.