nroff -man, .An Aq formatting

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Mar 22 15:56:12 UTC 2010


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 at example.com
output
	<joe at example.com>

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

Joerg


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