Re: [Groff] Escaping punctuation marks in troff

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Robert,

> Though if you want the output to look *nice*, you should use proper
> typographical quotes; either
> 
> .ip " she said \[lq]Hello World!\[rq] to me"

True.

> or, as a close  approximation,
> 
> .ip " she said ``Hello World!'' to me"

That tends to look a little odd in PostScript output, the quotes are
too wide, and doesn't work well with other output devices, e.g. \[lq]
and \[rq] both give " for ASCII whereas the others give `` and ''.

Cheers,


Ralph.