Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:29:32 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> To: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Is Makefile.inc1 in 6 wrong? Message-ID: <20060404232932.GC42612@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <20060404232527.GB42612@gurney.reilly.home> References: <20060404160100.U76190@goodwill.io.com> <200604041726.17120.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20060404163058.J76542@goodwill.io.com> <200604041752.15909.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20060404170708.D76810@goodwill.io.com> <20060404232527.GB42612@gurney.reilly.home>
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:25:27AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:19:33PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > > And also in man make. The ` is an accent key, not a quote key. > > Typographically, `' were often used as matching single quote > pairs, in systems that had to render to ASCII. You'll almost > certainly find that that man page rendered to postscript has > typographical 69 single quotes. I've just checked, and this is correct. Try "man -t make >make.ps" then use ggv or other postscript viewer to look at the result. All of those "back-ticks" are rendered as proper typographical single quotes. -- Andrew
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