LaTeX maps by default in its "verbatim" environments the ASCII characters ` and ' to the left and right single curly quotation mark. This is inconvenient for those who use LaTeX to typeset software documentation, because the glyphs look substantially different from the glyphs found for the ASCII straight apostrophe and grave accent on keyboards and modern system fonts.
The following tiny LaTeX macro fixes this: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/upquote/upquote.sty See also http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html for background information on the issue. If you publish Linux manuals using LaTeX, please point this out to the maintainer of your formatting style macros for consideration. Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
