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Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff
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Michael Kerrisk |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:46:10 +0200 |
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 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?
This all sounds reasonable. If needed I will adapt the 800 or so
(Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7) pages in man-pages to whatever input form is
needed (provded it is not a heavy form -- e.g., not troff
conditionals), so long as I can get what I consider to be decent
*output*. That is, balanced single quotes in ASCII (that probably
means the equivalent of \(aq...\(aq ), and balanced quotes in UTF-8
(as can currently be obtained by `...').
Cheers,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
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- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, (continued)
- 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 <=
- 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
- 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, 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, 2008/06/18