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4.6.5.2 Typographical symbols
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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.

 -- String: \*[-]
     Interpolate an em dash.

 -- String: \*[Q]
 -- String: \*[U]
     Interpolate typographer's quotation marks where available, and
     neutral double quotes otherwise.  '\*Q' is the left quote and '\*U'
     the right.