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Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff
From: |
Tadziu Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:35:40 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) |
> > 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.
I don't believe acute accent and apostrophe were ever
considered to be the same in troff. What you're seeing
in the old documents is simply a hack to obtain a glyph
visually distinct from the apostrophe/quote of the roman font.
Even at that time I think it would have been preferable to
use a "terminal" font for code fragments, which, however,
was not available because of technical limitations.
- 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, 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 <=
- 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
- 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