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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/groff.man | 14 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2009-04-24 Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> + + Use straight quotes where appropriate. + Reported by Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>. + + * man/groff.man: Do it. + 2009-04-14 Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> Fix documentation of `em' request. diff --git a/man/groff.man b/man/groff.man index a63961ca..35c0bd9c 100644 --- a/man/groff.man +++ b/man/groff.man @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ There are only two kinds of lines, control lines and text lines. The control lines start with a control character, by default a period .dquoted_char . or a single quote -.dquoted_char ' ; +.dquoted_char \[aq] ; all other lines are text lines. . .P @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ leading backslash These are in-line or even in-word formatting elements or functions. . Some of these take arguments separated by single quotes -.dquoted_char ' , +.dquoted_char \[aq] , others are regulated by a length encoding introduced by an open parenthesis .squoted_char ( @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ There are two kinds of roff commands, possibly with arguments. are written on a line of their own starting with a dot .squoted_char . or a -.dquoted_char ' , +.dquoted_char \[aq] , whereas .B Escape sequences are in-line functions and in-word formatting elements starting with a @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ In text paragraphs, it is advantageous to start each sentence at a line of its own. . .TP -\&\f[CB]'\f[] +\&\f[CB]\[aq]\f[] The single quote has two controlling tasks. . At the beginning of a line and in the conditional requests it is the @@ -887,14 +887,14 @@ True if the value of is\~0. . .TPx -.BI ' s1 ' s2 ' +.BI \[aq] s1 \[aq] s2 \[aq] True if string\~\c .I s1 is identical to string\~\c .IR s2 . . .TPx -.BI !' s1 ' s2 ' +.BI !\[aq] s1 \[aq] s2 \[aq] True if string\~\c .I s1 is not identical to string\~\c @@ -1240,7 +1240,7 @@ Break out of a while loop. .TPx .REQ .c2 Reset no-break control character to -.dquoted_char ' . +.dquoted_char \[aq] . . .TPx .REQ .c2 "c" |