From: sl@stanleylieber.com
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] 'LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' in FQA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:15:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89460f396e30c0f5e29abb76f9d9a80b@u2.attlocal.net> (raw)
>> in the fqa, some command invocations have a 'LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK'
>> where i think a simple single quote (') would be more appropriate, for
>> example in http://fqa.9front.org/fqa7.html#7.6.2. is there any
>> particular reason to keep the strange unicode character?
>
> Compare:
>
> /n/fqa/fqa7.ms:1200
>
> with
>
> /n/fqa/fqa7.html:1398
>
> The HTML is generated with htmlroff -u -ms -mhtml. I agree, when it
> comes to displaying commands meant to be typed into the terminal
> window, it would be better to keep the actual character used in the
> input.
>
> I will look into this when I get a chance.
Looks like I can just escape the ' and troff will not convert it.
sl
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