> Well, `` and '' get rendered as typographic double quotes in troff,
This is due to special, manually added, negative kern values for those
characters.
> Because of that I don't know of a way to specify typographic quotes in
> man(7) input aside from ugly escape sequences like \(lq and \(rq.
There are none, unfortunately. However, if you use the `preconv'
preprocessor, you can simply use Unicode characters in your input that
get converted to groff character entities.
> Should nroff render `` '' as typographical double quotes instead of
> literal ASCII values?
This is not possible since groff doesn't support `input ligatures'
(which is basically multiple input characters mapped to a single
output character).
Werner
