Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.

[John Gardner]

>
> However, there exist virtually *zero* fonts that display ` as an
> acceptable left quote in a typographical way


I'll just leave this here…

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On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 20:44, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> >> > Having `this' in a manpage is perfectly good typography,
>
> No, it's not – unfortunately.  Today, this is only the TeX way to
> enter left and right single quotes.  However, there exist virtually
> *zero* fonts that display ` as an acceptable left quote in a
> typographical way.  Previously, ` and ' were kind-of symmetric in many
> bitmap fonts, but this has changed.
>
> I'm against many changes caused by 'modern' features, but in this very
> point we have to update everything and follow the new rules.
>
> Note also that groff is a GNU program, and the GNU standards have
> changed, too.  For example, in error messages the recommendation is no
> longer to say
>
>   `foo'
>
> but
>
>   'foo'
>
>
>     Werner
>