"Anthony J. Bentley" <anth...@cathet.us> wrote: > I agree that `` '' makes no sense in modern ASCII; even in an xterm they > look unbalanced. " " would probably be a saner ASCII result for Dq, > \(lq, \*(Lq, and so forth, but I don't know how complicated a change > that would be or if there would be any larger implications to making > such a change. I believe the patch in my previous email is the correct > behavior for the non-ASCII case though.
It is generally no problem to differentiate between nroff and troff output. I suggest to do this here and to apply the patch for typeset output. Carsten