Clarke --
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008, Clarke Echols wrote:
>He told me, "That is a silly idea. I never said such a thing."
Though some might quibble it should be rendered:
He told me: "That is a silly idea. I never said such a thing."
Seriously--I loved your post. Point for point, princi
Well, as the world-renowned "expert" around HP back in 1989-1992
when I had all of Sections 1, 1M, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 (glossary),
it's a good question.
As a general practice, I tried to avoid the need for single quotes
in that context, because the single quote is so frequently used for
directin
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:05:05AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
2) Using the form
`x'
is rendered nicely by groff for UTF-8 (proper opening and closing
single quotes), but looks ugly in ASCII, since ` and ' are not
visually balanced. (I see that this usage is common, and wonder
whether it rende
Hello all
I'm the maintainer of the Linux man-pages package (~800 pages in
sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 of the Linux man pages).
Stuart Brady pointed out to me some inconsistencies in the use of
single quotes in the man-pages package, and also some problems in the
groff rendering of single quotes in UT
