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Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff |
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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:25:42 +0200 (CEST) |
> Sorry, I didn't get the last sentence from 2.1. I was referring to
> the decision that has been made for groff. \' renders as an acute
> accent, and not as an apostrophe. (I wouldn't know if anyone's
> patched their version of nroff to address this issue, though.)
As an additional affirmation, have a look at the table at page 7 of
CSTR #54. It explicitly says:
2.1 \’ ´ (acute accent); equivalent to \(aa
2.1 \‘ ` (grave accent); equivalent to \(ga
> Yes, we've already established that \` and \' were originally
> intended to produce grave and acute accents, as distinct from
> opening/closing quotes. The point I was making is that \(aa's
> behaviour in groff has been changed from the behaviour in nroff,
> presumably to account for unbalanced fonts.
The mappings
\' -> \(aa
\` -> \(ga
are hardcoded in groff.
Werner
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