Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Michael,

> 2) Using the form
> `x'
> is rendered nicely by groff for UTF-8 (proper opening and closing
> single quotes), but looks ugly in ASCII, since ` and ' are not
> visually balanced.  (I see that this usage is common, and wonder
> whether it rendered differently for ASCII in historical roff systems?)

It's always used those ASCII characters, 0x60 and 0x27, but the various
serial terminals I used to use years ago had bitmap fonts that had them
balanced, i.e. the ' lent to the right at the top.

Cheers,


Ralph.