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Re: [Groff] collapsing doubled single quotes


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [Groff] collapsing doubled single quotes
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 23:17:54 +0100

Hi Jim,

> Several man pages use ``foo''
> ...
> Can it be done w/o patching the src or the manpages?

Aren't the man pages plain broken?  They shouldn't use `` since that
appears as `` in a -Tascii rendering of the man page which looks butt
ugly and broken.  If it used \(lq instead then -Tascii would use ".

Cheers,


Ralph.


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