Tadziu Hoffmann: >> Could you please tell me the purpose of this >> mapping in unicode.tmac: >> >> .char ' \[cq] >> >> This causes all apostrophes to be typeset as >> closing single quotes. Is it correct? > > Yes. Apostrophes and (english) single right > quotes are identical glyphs. What you're probably > thinking of as "apostrophe" is a crude hack in- > vented for typewriters and is not used in "real" > typography.
Thanks. I needed to make the output of Tutf8 a su- perset of Tascii and was wondering about these dif- ferences. Another question is about the hyphen sym- bol -- \[hy]. Is it possible to tell groff to use the standard hyphen-minus sign of the ASCII table instead of \[u2012] for hyphenation? I couln't achieve it by commeting out the corresponding line in unicode.tmac, and in the fonts for the utf8 de- vice I couldn't find this character... Anton
