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

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Stuart,

> > Since any code extracts, C, shell, etc., often already need
> > manipulation, perhaps because they contain the escape character,
> > it's these that should use \` and \', e.g.
> > 
> >     $ grep \'foo\\.bar\' \`find -name \'xxx.*\'\`
> 
> Agreed -- except that \' won't work -- you need \(aq, because \'
> renders to an acute accent -- but this did originally work for older
> troff, when the apostrophe and acute accent were one and the same.

Yes, you're right.  How annoying.  Does Heritage troff have any view on
all this?

Cheers,


Ralph.