Re: [Groff] [patch] Typographic quotes in -mdoc %T

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Werner,

> > Well, `` and '' get rendered as typographic double quotes in troff,
> 
> This is due to special, manually added, negative kern values for those
> characters.

I didn't know that.  Presumably though, it's still not as potentially
good quality output as using the proper escape to get real “ and ” and
so ``input'' like that should be discouraged, even if it makes TeX users
feel at home?

Cheers, Ralph.