Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses)

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Traditionally, groff appears to support smart quotes by having the
> user do it manually, using \*[oq] or something equally hideous. Is
> there any way I can persuade groff to do them for me? For example,
> by triggering a macro on every character (although this is liable to
> be rather slow)?

Unfortunately no.  TeX has this feature (called `active
characters'), and I sometimes I wonder whether I shall add support
for this (in case it is possible -- I haven't checked this yet).


    Werner