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Re: [BUG] groff: inconsistent behavior of " to separate arguments


From: Humm
Subject: Re: [BUG] groff: inconsistent behavior of " to separate arguments
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 09:17:59 +0000

Quoth G. Branden Robinson:
As far as I know, groff innovated these character definitions, and my
hat's off to James Clark for doing so.  Lacking them for so long strikes
me as...blinkered.

When was that?  In the git commit messages I see it in 2000.

\(dq appears in the first edition of Plan 9 in the devutf device. The files are dated 1993-01-04.

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Humm



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