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I would fain use the curly quotes if only Darwin's groff(1) wouldn't barf on them. For the time being, man pages for one still need to quote like ``this''.
by tempodox 9y ago
I would fain use the curly quotes if only Darwin's groff(1) wouldn't barf on them. For the time being, man pages for one still need to quote like ``this''.
- robin_reala 9y agobrew install groff? That’ll get you 1.22.3 instead of the default 1.19.2.
- anjbe 9y agoIn troff you can escape “ ” ‘ ’ as \(lq, \(rq, \(oq, \(cq respectively. If you’re writing manpages, though, you should be using the -mdoc macros (https://manpages.bsd.lv/mdoc.html https://manpages.bsd.lv/mdoc.html), which have “Dq” and “Sq” macros that wrap the arguments in double and single quotes respectively.