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Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses)
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses) |
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Thu, 25 Jul 2002 02:44:37 +0200 (CEST) |
> Traditionally, groff appears to support smart quotes by having the
> user do it manually, using \*[oq] or something equally hideous. Is
> there any way I can persuade groff to do them for me? For example,
> by triggering a macro on every character (although this is liable to
> be rather slow)?
Unfortunately no. TeX has this feature (called `active
characters'), and I sometimes I wonder whether I shall add support
for this (in case it is possible -- I haven't checked this yet).
Werner
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- Re: [Groff] meta macro package, David Given, 2002/07/12
- Re: [Groff] meta macro package, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/07/13
- [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses), David Given, 2002/07/24
- Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses), Larry Jones, 2002/07/24
- Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses),
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- Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses), Alejandro López-Valencia, 2002/07/26
- Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses), Larry Jones, 2002/07/26