Hi Stuart, > > Since any code extracts, C, shell, etc., often already need > > manipulation, perhaps because they contain the escape character, > > it's these that should use \` and \', e.g. > > > > $ grep \'foo\\.bar\' \`find -name \'xxx.*\'\` > > Agreed -- except that \' won't work -- you need \(aq, because \' > renders to an acute accent -- but this did originally work for older > troff, when the apostrophe and acute accent were one and the same.
Yes, you're right. How annoying. Does Heritage troff have any view on all this? Cheers, Ralph.
