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Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff
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Stuart Brady |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:26:19 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Hi Ralph,
> Historically, CSTR 54, page 7, shows that \` is equivalent to \(ga and
> gives a grave accent, as distinct from ` which just gives plain `.
Where plain ` at one point was an opening quote mark, I assume...
What worries me is cases such as command substitution, e.g. ls -l `find
-type f -name *foo*` -- the main concern being that if a user copies an
example, then it should simply work. Currently, on UTF-8 locales, groff
renders ` as an opening quote mark, but the user's shell will complain
if they use that. It's easy enough to update man pages to use \`, but
it seems to me that old man pages were correct to use plain `.
--
Stuart Brady
Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Ralph Corderoy, 2008/06/07
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Stuart Brady, 2008/06/10
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- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Ralph Corderoy, 2008/06/11
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Ralph Corderoy, 2008/06/11
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Ted Harding, 2008/06/11
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Ralph Corderoy, 2008/06/11
Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Stuart Brady, 2008/06/12
Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Ralph Corderoy, 2008/06/12
Message not availableRe: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Ralph Corderoy, 2008/06/12
Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Stuart Brady, 2008/06/13
Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/14
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