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ms provides a few strings to obtain typographical symbols not easily entered with the keyboard. These and many others are available as special character escape sequences—see the groff_char(7) man page.
Interpolate an em dash.
Interpolate typographer’s quotation marks where available,
and neutral double quotes otherwise.
\*Q
is the left quote and
\*U
the right.
These are Berkeley extensions.