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[Groff] Re: Readability of troff documents


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: [Groff] Re: Readability of troff documents
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 10:01:46 +0200 (CEST)

> Is there a way (other than preprocessing through some sed
> filter) of inserting these the way they're inserted in
> LaTeX? Ie:
> 
> em dash is ---
> en dash is --

Unfortunately no.  The ligatures possible are fi, fl, ff, ffi, and
ffl.  It needs a non-trivial extension to handle more.  Sigh.  Time,
time, time.


    Werner

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