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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Yeah, I think that's what's needed.  Debian does tr \[oq] ' (only)
> and I'm not sure if that's also be needed.  For latin1, it might be
> nicer to keep ` as it is, and instead map ' and \[cq] to an acute
> accent.

Well, since it is often the case that man pages cite shell input code
like

  $ grep foo `find -name 'xxx.*'`

it is quite important IMHO to have proper cut and paste from a man
page displayed in a terminal.  With other words: Within normal text,
it's probably best to use \[oq] and \[cq], and within verbatim code
fragments, plain ' and ` should be used as-is.


    Werner