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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 |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:52:36 +0200 (CEST) |
> Personally, I would prefer that quotes render sensibly in utf8, html
> and dvi, and that correctly written man pages do not need any
> modification. Also, the use of `foo' is very convenient (even if it
> no longer appears balanced in the source).
Let me try to summarize:
. What people like to input in man pages is this:
`foo' should be equal to \[oq]foo\[cq]
\`foo\' should be equal to <ASCII 0x60>foo<ASCII 0x27>
I say `in man pages' because \` and \' act as accents too, but
this is, AFAIK, not used (a quick search in the man pages on my
SuSE GNU/Linux box showed not a single man file which uses \' or
\` as an accent).
. Depending on the output device, ` and ' should be mapped to
different characters. However, \` and \' should always map to
ASCII 0x60 and ASCII 0x27 for proper cut and paste support.
Do you all agree with this?
Werner
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, (continued)
- 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, 2008/06/15
- 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
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- 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
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, walter harms, 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, walter harms, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Stuart Brady, 2008/06/18
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/17