> > Arjan Opmeer wrote: > >> > >> Looking at the man page I see that the escaped version of some characters > >> are used. > >> > >> \e for \ (which won't work when the escape character is redefined) > >> \&_ for _ what is that non-printable, zero width character doing there? > >> \` for ` but the escaped version maps to the grave accent > >> \' for ' but the escaped version maps to the acute accent > >> \- for - why? we want the real minus character, not some hyphen > >> > >> As UTF8 and all the ISO-8859-x fonts have the standard ASCII character set > >> at the beginning, why not use the real ASCII characters in this man page? > >> After all, it is about the ASCII set now how you could pretty format that > >> on > >> some output device.
\`, \(aq, \- etc. yield the real ASCII characters. `, ', - etc. yield 'pretty' quotes, dashes, etc. The fix for the apostrophes in ascii.7 is to use \(aq instead of \'. \' produces the ISO-8859-x acute accent, not an apostrophe. (The patch for ascii.7 that I originally submitted used \(aq -- I later commented that I thought \' should work, but I was mistaken.) BTW, man pages can also be rendered as html, dvi, ps, etc. using -Tps, etc. (The html rendering could perhaps use some love, although AFAICT, it still seems better than the various man2html scripts...) Cheers, -- Stuart Brady -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
