Re: [Groff] another groff/troff compatibility question

[Larry Jones]

Andrew Koenig writes:
> 
> troff defines strings '' and `` as nicely kerned open and close double
> quotes, which one can obtain with \(`` and \('' .  Apparently groff
> doesn't.  Is there a reason, or is it just an oversight?

I assume you mean special characters, not strings (strings would be
\*(``).  For what it's worth, they don't seem to be in my version of
troff which came from SysV/386, so it's not real new, but it's not
ancient, either.  So it sounds like they're recent additions -- groff's
\(lq and \(rq would appear to be synonymous.

-Larry Jones

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