Hi Ingo,
> If i remember correctly, some time ago, people went through error
> messages and manual pages and changed single-quoted strings where the
> opening quote was an "accent grave" to the normal ASCII U+0027
> APOSTROPHE-QUOTE because rendering single quotes like `this' was
> considered an anachronism from the mechanical typewriter era.
>
> However, the -T ascii output device still renders \(oq as "accent
> grave", also affecting macro packages that implement single quoting
> macros in terms of \(oq, for example mdoc(7) .Sq.
>
> I propose the patch below to change the -T ascii (and -T latin1)
> rendering of \(oq from "accent grave" to APOSTROPHE-QUOTE. No other
> output device is affected.
Have I got this right? Currently,
$ cat quote.tr
.pl 1
3 `ascii' \(oqoq-cq\(cq \(aqaq\(aq \(lqlq-rq\(rq \(dqdq\(dq
$
$ nroff -Tascii quote.tr
6 `ascii' `oq-cq' 'aq' "lq-rq" "dq"
$ nroff -Tlatin1 quote.tr
8 `ascii' `oq-cq' 'aq' "lq-rq" "dq"
$ nroff -Tutf8 quote.tr
10 ‘ascii’ ‘oq‐cq’ 'aq' “lq‐rq” "dq"
$
6 and 8 are identical. You're suggesting they stay the same and become
old `ascii' `oq-cq' 'aq' "lq-rq" "dq"
new `ascii' 'oq-cq' 'aq' "lq-rq" "dq"
Thus losing the ability to tell if I mistyped \(oq as \(cq with -Tascii
or -Tlatin1?
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Cheers, Ralph.
