[groff] 01/01: mdoc \*[Lq], \*[Rq]: map to \[lq], \[rq]

[Carsten Kunze]

carstenkunze pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit e553d384d06318fcbd5944a7167659681fd06e0f
Author: Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Feb 16 22:58:53 2017 +0100

    mdoc \*[Lq], \*[Rq]: map to \[lq], \[rq]
    
    Map these strings equally for all terminal devices.
    
    See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?43554
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 ChangeLog        | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 tmac/doc-nroff-u |  6 ++----
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 86c05cf..eaaf03f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+2017-02-16  Ingo Schwarze  <address@hidden>
+
+       mdoc \*[Lq], \*[Rq]: map to \[lq], \[rq] for all terminal
+       devices
+
+       * tmac/doc-nroff-u: .ds Lq \[lq], .ds Rq \[rq]
+
+       If you use \[lq] and \[rq] directly in your document, the
+       quotes already render nicely for all terminal devices:
+       as U+201C and U+201D for devutf8 and as ASCII 0x22 (") for
+       devascii and devlatin1.
+       So it is not quite clear why doc-nroff should avoid
+       \[lq] and \[rq] when resolving \[Lq] and \[Rq] for devascii
+       and devlatin1. Quite to the contrary, many people seem to
+       consider "``" and "''" ugly renderings because they look
+       unbalanced.
+
+       See
+
+       https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?43554
+
 2017-02-16  Bjarni Ingi Gislason  <address@hidden>
 
        Use the traditional (portable) method of using a backslash
diff --git a/tmac/doc-nroff-u b/tmac/doc-nroff-u
index 8f5e0ca..3134cba 100644
--- a/tmac/doc-nroff-u
+++ b/tmac/doc-nroff-u
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@
 .ds aa \[aa]
 .ds ga \[ga]
 .ds q \[dq]
+.ds Lq \[lq]
+.ds Rq \[rq]
 .ds Ne \[!=]
 .ds Le \[<=]
 .ds Ge \[>=]
@@ -162,15 +164,11 @@
 .\" character representations which are different from GNU troff's standard
 .\" forms.
 .ie '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
-.  ds Rq \[rq]
-.  ds Lq \[lq]
 .  ds ua \[ua]
 .  ds Pi \[*p]
 .  ds If \[if]
 .\}
 .el \{\
-.  ds Rq ''
-.  ds Lq ``
 .  ds ua ^
 .  ds Pi pi
 .  ds If infinity