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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Personally, I would prefer that quotes render sensibly in utf8, html
> and dvi, and that correctly written man pages do not need any
> modification.  Also, the use of `foo' is very convenient (even if it
> no longer appears balanced in the source).

Let me try to summarize:

  . What people like to input in man pages is this:

      `foo' should be equal to \[oq]foo\[cq]

      \`foo\' should be equal to <ASCII 0x60>foo<ASCII 0x27>

    I say `in man pages' because \` and \' act as accents too, but
    this is, AFAIK, not used (a quick search in the man pages on my
    SuSE GNU/Linux box showed not a single man file which uses \' or
    \` as an accent).

  . Depending on the output device, ` and ' should be mapped to
    different characters.  However, \` and \' should always map to
    ASCII 0x60 and ASCII 0x27 for proper cut and paste support.

Do you all agree with this?


    Werner