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Re: [Groff] another groff/troff compatibility question
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Larry Jones |
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Re: [Groff] another groff/troff compatibility question |
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:49:47 -0400 (EDT) |
Andrew Koenig writes:
>
> They seem to have come in as part of PostScript support.
> I do indeed mean that they are special characters.
I just checked the Plan 9 troff manual, and they're not even listed
there, so it seems they're stealth additions. :-)
> It's nice to know that \(lq and \(rq are synonyms, but it
> would be even nicer if a future version of groff could support
> \(`` and \(''. I am trying to get an existing document, which
> includes \(`` and \('' characters in it, to work with both troff
> and groff without changing the document itself. I can change
> the macros that it uses, but that won't help me here.
In the meantime, I think you can do something like:
.if ! \w'\(``' .tr \(``\(lq\(''\(rq
-Larry Jones
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