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

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> > Isn't it possible in the UTF-8 device to create a (pseudo-)
> > font with ASCII encoding?
> 
> I don't understand.  Please rephrase.

Try the following example with devutf8.  It's supposed to give
pretty formatting in Postscript and cut-and-paste-able shell
commands in UTF-8.  The example displays quotes in different
circumstances (including bold and "italic" quotes) and also
shows that there's no need to specially mark up code fragments
*except* to use a suitably defined macro (which is a good
idea anyway).  In other words, we can use ascii 0x60 and 0x27
for both "normal" quotes *and* shell command examples in the
[nt]roff source (which I think is the best solution and most
convenient, and allows us to tweak the macro to get optimum
output on every device without modifying the input file).

Regarding the "ASCII-encoding font" in devutf8, what I'm
trying to say is that my "C" macro for utf8 in the example
is needlessly complicated, and we could use its default
definition instead if we had a suitable "C" font, like this:
make a copy named "C" of the file "B" in devutf8, and edit
it such that the characters ` and ' have encoding 0x0060
and 0x0027 instead of 0x2018 and 0x2019.  Remove the entire
".if '\*[.T]'utf8'" block in the example and verify that the
example still gives the desired result.

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