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

[walter harms]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> several years ago (1987 ?) a problem with theses backtics where
>> noticed and $( .. ) was introduced to replace them. before you start
>> to replace every backtic it may more resonable to replace it with $(
>> .. )
> 
> But this is not relevant to the general problem of providing good
> representations of ` and '.
> 

this is true, and the discussion was interesting but ntl before he starts to
replace all the ` with something else eg. \' or \(aq  he should consider this
solution.
It does not solve the typographical/technical problem but the "real" question 
was how
to display examples that the user can use clip&paste.

re,
 wh