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Re: [Groff] [patch] Typographic quotes in -mdoc %T


From: Carsten Kunze
Subject: Re: [Groff] [patch] Typographic quotes in -mdoc %T
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 13:22:32 +0100 (CET)

"Anthony J. Bentley" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I agree that `` '' makes no sense in modern ASCII; even in an xterm they
> look unbalanced. " " would probably be a saner ASCII result for Dq,
> \(lq, \*(Lq, and so forth, but I don't know how complicated a change
> that would be or if there would be any larger implications to making
> such a change. I believe the patch in my previous email is the correct
> behavior for the non-ASCII case though.

It is generally no problem to differentiate between nroff and troff output.  I 
suggest to do this here and to apply the patch for typeset output.

Carsten



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