Hi Michael,
> > Where do you see \(aq as desired in the Linux man pages? Only when
> > -Tascii is being used?
>
> Yes. This is my attempt to get a reasonable rendering (on both ASCII
> and UTF-8) of chars inside single quotes. (`x' is ugly in ASCII, 'x'
> is not pretty in UTF-8.)
>
> man-pages has now made this change (\(aqx\(aq) throughout the set,
> though if someone comes up with a better solution, I'll make furtehr
> changes.
Does that mean authors must type \(aq in normal text? If so, I can see
why you're looking for something better; that gives troff a bad name.
:-) Or is it somehow conditional on -Tascii and -Tutf-8 meaning
zcat /usr/share/man/man1/true.1.gz | groff -ma4 -man >/tmp/true.ps
still gives nice looking apostrophes.
Cheers,
Ralph.
