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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Also, there are still fonts in which ASCII 0x27 and 0x60 are
> symmetric (you can also create your own (or remap an existing one)
> if necessary) which are still useful and convenient for programmers.

Indeed.  Right now I'm using such a font in Emacs, a 12x24 bitmap font
(Etl-Fixed-Medium).

> Not sure.  The manual clearly states that \' represents an acute
> accent, which is a glyph very distinct from the ascii quote.

Please bear in mind that we are talking about man pages, not troff
documents in general.

> The only way to get a consistent behavior across all devices would
> then be to give up on compatibility with AT&T troff, discard the
> equivalence of \` and \' with grave and acute accent, define two new
> glyphs "ascii backquote" and "ascii quote" (okay, the latter already
> exists) and consider these to be equivalent to \` and \'.  The
> accents will still be accessible as \(ga and \(aa.

I have no problem with this -- can anyone show me a man page which
uses \' and \` for accents?


    Werner