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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:56:19 +0100
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
Message-ID:  <20100322155619.GA4984@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <ho810g$19g0$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <4BA5D7B0.8000507@bsdforen.de> <4BA6C5DA.6040100@FreeBSD.org> <86634ojxl7.fsf@ds4.des.no> <ho810g$19g0$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>

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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 03:05:52PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> And we probably have that usage in other man pages.  It is not clear
> to me if the problem is the use of these characters for angle quotes
> or the use of .Aq for email addresses.

I think the best option would be to sit down and adjust .Mt slightly to
include the angle quotes and start to use that.

E.g. make
	.Mt joe@example.com
output
	<joe@example.com>

It is supported by (old) versions of groff already, just without the
angel quotes.

Joerg



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