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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: |
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:23:40 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:06:35PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> It's horrible for an author to have to use character escapes instead of
> the glyphs readily available on the keyboard for normal text; it
> interrupts the flow of typing. Surely the solution should allow the
> `normal' entry of quotes in this case.
Those are certainly my sentiments.
> Since any code extracts, C,
> shell, etc., often already need manipulation, perhaps because they
> contain the escape character, it's these that should use \` and \', e.g.
>
> $ grep \'foo\\.bar\' \`find -name \'xxx.*\'\`
Agreed -- except that \' won't work -- you need \(aq, because \' renders
to an acute accent -- but this did originally work for older troff, when
the apostrophe and acute accent were one and the same.
Out of curiosity, is there a decent way to define \(aq to ' in a man
page, provided something other than groff is rendering the page?
Cheers,
--
Stuart Brady
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, (continued)
- 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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- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/14
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Stuart Brady, 2008/06/15
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/15
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Ralph Corderoy, 2008/06/15
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff,
Stuart Brady <=
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Ralph Corderoy, 2008/06/16
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/15
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Stuart Brady, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Michael Kerrisk, 2008/06/17