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Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses)
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses) |
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Fri, 02 Aug 2002 02:47:07 +0200 (CEST) |
> I think, however, the essence of "smart" quotes is that the software
> figures out what's needed and does the dirty work. I've often
> wished that troff would recognize `` and '' as double quotes, and
> substitute the real double quote characters if available. The same
> could be said for -- (or perhaps ---) as \(em, which is every bit as
> ugly as \(`` or \(oq.
Extending and generalizing the ligature mechanism (even beyond TeX) to
support any ligature is on the TODO list.
Werner