Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Sorry, I didn't get the last sentence from 2.1.  I was referring to
> the decision that has been made for groff.  \' renders as an acute
> accent, and not as an apostrophe.  (I wouldn't know if anyone's
> patched their version of nroff to address this issue, though.)

As an additional affirmation, have a look at the table at page 7 of
CSTR #54. It explicitly says:

  2.1 \’ ´ (acute accent); equivalent to \(aa
  2.1 \‘ ` (grave accent); equivalent to \(ga

> Yes, we've already established that \` and \' were originally
> intended to produce grave and acute accents, as distinct from
> opening/closing quotes.  The point I was making is that \(aa's
> behaviour in groff has been changed from the behaviour in nroff,
> presumably to account for unbalanced fonts.

The mappings

  \' -> \(aa
  \` -> \(ga

are hardcoded in groff.


    Werner