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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: German characters: "ess-tzet", quotes
Message-ID: <2641@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 14:57:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 14:57:33 1986
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Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
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I am working on a troff-able copy of German text.  I've figured out
the umlauts already (via mm(1)), but there are three other characters
I am wondering.

The first is  "ess-tzet" (?sp), which looks like a Greek beta and
is an older character (soon to become obsolete, I hear) for the union
of 's' and 'z'; it is usually transliterated as "ss".

The other two are the quote-marks, which look like small << >>'s.  I
have tried, in fact:

                \s-2\f3<<\fP\s+2       \s-2\f3>>\fP\s+2

but these did not look quite as I would have liked.  The two '<'s need
to be one-within-the-other, not just two independent characters, and
the middle parts (at the corners) should be thickest.

So, if I don't have the German font available, what imitations can I
use?

(PS - If it makes any difference, I am actually using Imagen's xroff(1)
      on a Xerox 2700).
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