Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> What about double quotes? >>> quilt's manpage renders like this in the man viewer: ``pushed on the >>> stack'' >>> I looked at the source and the .1 file has exactly those characters >>> too. So what should it have to get them converted into nice-looking >>> Unicode quotes? >> Use troff to render the man page into PostScript instead of using nroff >> to view it. I don't believe nroff converts double quotes. > So much about it being a feature of the format, then. If ``'' means > quotes in the roff format and nroff can't output Unicode, it should be > converting them to something sane like "". `` and '' aren't documented in the troff paper that I could find, so I'm not sure that they're a formal feature of the format in the same way that - becoming a hyphen is (the latter is documented). However, I may be missing where it's documented. `` and '' have been converted to paired quotes by troff for years, though, so it is a commonly-implemented feature of the underlying format. I would call this a substandard rendering of the quotes by the nroff front-end, not a deficiency in the format. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
