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


From: Stuart Brady
Subject: Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:08:29 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 02:39:03PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 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.

Huh?  Sorry, but isn't that what \` and \(aq are for?
-- 
Stuart Brady




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