[bug #43554] [PATCH] mdoc \*[Lq], \*[Rq]: map to \[lq], \[rq] for all terminal devices

[Ingo Schwarze]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?43554>

                 Summary: [PATCH] mdoc \*[Lq], \*[Rq]: map to \[lq], \[rq] for
all terminal devices
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: schwarze
            Submitted on: Fri 07 Nov 2014 01:02:31 AM GMT
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

If you use \[lq] and \[rq] directly in your document, the quotes already
render nicely for all terminal devices:  as U+201C and U+201D for devutf8 and
as ASCII 0x22 (") for devascii and devlatin1.

So it is not quite clear why doc-nroff should avoid \[lq] and \[rq]
when resolving \*[Lq] and \*[Rq] for devascii and devlatin1.  Quite to the
contrary, many people seem to consider "``" and "''" ugly renderings because
they look unbalanced.



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Date: Fri 07 Nov 2014 01:02:31 AM GMT  Name: quotes.patch  Size: 546B   By:
schwarze

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=32386>

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