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Re: [Groff] Escaping punctuation marks in troff
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Escaping punctuation marks in troff |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:12:36 +0000 |
Hi Robert,
> Though if you want the output to look *nice*, you should use proper
> typographical quotes; either
>
> .ip " she said \[lq]Hello World!\[rq] to me"
True.
> or, as a close approximation,
>
> .ip " she said ``Hello World!'' to me"
That tends to look a little odd in PostScript output, the quotes are
too wide, and doesn't work well with other output devices, e.g. \[lq]
and \[rq] both give " for ASCII whereas the others give `` and ''.
Cheers,
Ralph.