Re: [Groff] Smart quotes

[Mark Lawrence]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:13:41AM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> 
> I can't believe I'm the first person who's ever wanted/needed
> smart quotes in groff.
> 

This is not a pure troff solution, but it may give you some ideas.

I've used a short perl filter to turn typewriter double quotes into
troff double quotes:

 #!/usr/bin/perl -p

  s/(\S)"/\1''/g;
  s/"/``\1/g;

I run my file through this filter before sending it to troff so I can
type as I normally do (using ") while still getting the typeset ouput
I want.

Instead of replacing the " with '' and ``, you could (I think)
replace them with macros or special characters that change their
output depending on the desired style.

-- 
Mark Lawrence
www.unified-eng.com