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| author |   Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2015-03-27 01:01:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2015-03-27 01:01:28 +0000 |
| commit | 37ce28af51ecfe6f3fb22520b124568860d1a764 (patch) | |
| tree | ca7396b69a2a4fffee1e359796394e715b3d829d | |
| parent | 3c2c2429ff78d4347f710b76186c042974eff3d9 (diff) | |
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oops, forgot to apply the actual patch...
| -rw-r--r-- | mandoc_char.7 | 24 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mandoc_char.7 b/mandoc_char.7 index b0203890..7b81d97e 100644 --- a/mandoc_char.7 +++ b/mandoc_char.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.60 2015/03/27 00:57:28 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.61 2015/03/27 01:01:28 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> @@ -142,6 +142,28 @@ Note that on text lines, literal double-quote characters can be used verbatim. All other quote-like characters can be used verbatim as well, even on request and macro lines. +.Ss Accents +In output modes supporting such special output characters, for example +.Fl T Cm pdf , +some +.Xr roff 7 +formatters convert the following ASCII input characters to the +following Unicode special output characters: +.Bl -column x(ga U+2018 -offset indent +.It \(ga Ta U+2018 Ta left single quotation mark +.It \(aq Ta U+2019 Ta right single quotation mark +.It \(ti Ta U+02DC Ta small tilde +.El +.Pp +In prose, this automatic substitution is often desirable; +but when these characters have to be displayed as plain ASCII +characters, for example in source code samples, they require +escaping to render as follows: +.Bl -column x(ga U+2018 -offset indent +.It \e(ga Ta U+0060 Ta grave accent +.It \e(aq Ta U+0027 Ta apostrophe +.It \e(ti Ta U+007E Ta tilde +.El .Ss Periods The period .Pq Sq \&. |