Use \(aq for ASCII apostrophes and \(ga for backtick,
as recommended by groff_man(7).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@xxxxxxxxx>
---
man7/man.7 | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man7/man.7 b/man7/man.7
index 473aad7e4..fd6e30b07 100644
--- a/man7/man.7
+++ b/man7/man.7
@@ -370,8 +370,8 @@ When you need to include the backslash character as normal text,
use \ee.
Other sequences you may use, where x or xx are any characters and N
is any digit, include:
-.BR \e' ,
-.BR \e` ,
+.BR \e\(aq ,
+.BR \e\(ga ,
.BR \e- ,
.BR \e. ,
.BR \e" ,
@@ -447,14 +447,14 @@ to ensure that tools can automatically find the URLs.
.PP
Tools processing these files should open the file and examine the first
nonwhitespace character.
-A period (.) or single quote (') at the beginning
+A period (.) or single quote (\(aq) at the beginning
of a line indicates a troff-based file (such as man or mdoc).
A left angle bracket (<) indicates an SGML/XML-based
file (such as HTML or Docbook).
Anything else suggests simple ASCII
text (e.g., a "catman" result).
.PP
-Many man pages begin with \fB\'\e"\fP followed by a
+Many man pages begin with \fB\(aq\e"\fP followed by a
space and a list of characters,
indicating how the page is to be preprocessed.
For portability's sake to non-troff translators we recommend
--
2.20.1
