> When I write a man page, how shall I best tell *roff in a simple and
> portable way (i.e., not only for the GNU version) to
>
> - represent a string in any plaintext output encoding as a
> verbatim ASCII quote of what is found in the source file, that
> is not be mangled into any other characters because people might
> want to cut&paste it from a UTF-8 xterm or xman into xterm
AFAIK, this is not possible. The man macros don't have support for
that.
> - switch to a monospaced typewriter font in Postscript output
> to signal the reader of the printed document that this is meant to
> be verbatim ASCII syntax (preferably using the correct glyphs for
> APOSTROPHE and GRAVE ACCENT)
For PS output you can use the font `CW'.
Werner
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