From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:18:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax
Message-ID: <87d4fmpmte.fsf@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <87tz8yponl.fsf@iki.fi>

Teemu Likonen (2008-12-20 22:39 +0200) wrote:

> To get the logical single quote the man page source should contain \(aq
> or \[aq] . Don't know how to make asciidoc do this.

But \(aq seems to be groff-specific and not necessarily portable. Oh
well, quotation marks are really a mess in man pages. Some reference:

    http://www.mail-archive.com/groff@gnu.org/msg04150.html

But char " should be reliable anyway. It renders as Ascii double quote.