Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> writes: > Ye gods, that's nasty. Should be removed IMO, since '`' is not and > never was an opening single quotation mark.
It is in the *roff language, similar to how '' is an opening or closing quotation mark in TeX. Just because most of the characters in *roff have some resemblence to similar characters in normal ASCII text, that doesn't mean they mean the same thing. *roff is a formatting language, not ASCII text with a few special commands, and it's important to be aware of that while writing in it. *roff is 33 years old. It doesn't work the way that it would if it were designed today. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
