Almost all other "literal" uses of the apostrophe were already migrated to `\(aq` instead.
groff_man_style(7):
... Some escape sequences are however required for correct
typesetting even in man pages and usually do not cause portability
problems.
Several of these render glyphs corresponding to punctuation code
points in the Unicode basic Latin range (U+0000–U+007F) that are
handled specially in roff input; the escape sequences below must be
used to render them correctly and portably when documenting
material that uses them as literals—namely, any of the set ' - \ ^
` ~ (apostrophe, dash or hyphen‐minus, backslash, caret, grave
accent, tilde).
\(aq Basic Latin neutral apostrophe. Some output devices format
“'” as a right single quotation mark.
---
doc/bash.1 | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1
index b666f63c..200cf00e 100644
--- a/doc/bash.1
+++ b/doc/bash.1
@@ -8054,7 +8054,8 @@ .SH "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS"
initialization file such as
.IR .inputrc ,
but each binding or command must be passed as a separate argument;
-e.g., '\(dq\eC\-x\eC\-r\(dq: re\-read\-init\-file'.
+e.g.,
+\(aq\(dq\eC\-x\eC\-r\(dq: re\-read\-init\-file\(aq.
In the following descriptions, output available to be re-read is formatted
as commands that would appear in a
.B readline
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