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From: | Tadziu Hoffmann |
Subject: | Re: [Groff] Apostrophe mapped onto single closing quotation mark on utf8 device |
Date: | Wed, 2 May 2012 13:44:35 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
> Could you please tell me the purpose of this mapping > in unicode.tmac: > > .char ' \[cq] > > This causes all apostrophes to be typeset as closing > single quotes. Is it correct? Yes. Apostrophes and (english) single right quotes are identical glyphs. What you're probably thinking of as "apostrophe" is a crude hack invented for typewriters and is not used in "real" typography.
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