gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (01/16/87)
rbutterworth@watmath.UUCP (Ray Butterworth) writes: > Some terminals and printers have begun displaying it > as a left-quote... Judging > by many of the net articles, this practice seems to be becoming quite > popular. (On a standard terminal, the text appears to look more like > ~~quote'' than what was intended though. It is quite ugly anyway.) This is probably due to troff, which is too stupid to be able to tell whether a " is an opening or closing doublequote, and forces people to use `` and '' instead. Maybe SoftQuad (the only people who are doing development on troff, it seems) will fix this. [Followups should skip comp.lang.c, they don't care about this!] -- John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu /* No comment */