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Re: [Groff] collapsing doubled single quotes
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James H. Cloos Jr. |
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Re: [Groff] collapsing doubled single quotes |
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Date: |
02 Sep 2003 18:30:19 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Ralph" == Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> writes:
>> Several man pages use ``foo'' ... Can it be done w/o patching the
>> src or the manpages?
Ralph> Aren't the man pages plain broken? They shouldn't use `` since
Ralph> that appears as `` in a -Tascii rendering of the man page which
Ralph> looks butt ugly and broken. If it used \(lq instead then
Ralph> -Tascii would use ".
Agreed. One could say I am looking for more of a kludge than a
solution. OTOH the number of such man pages is large enough I'd like
to think of it less of a kludge than a hack. :)
-JimC