G. Branden Robinson e5b5757e64 tmac/tmac.an*: support lq, rq strings ...

The `lq` and `rq` strings are not a groffism, but _almost_ universally
portable to man(7) renderers.

They originate in 4BSD (1980).[1]  They entered Unix System V with SVR4
(1988 or 1989).[2]  mandoc(1) has supported them since its inception.[3]

* tmac/tmac.an:
* tmac/tmac.antimes: Do it.  Use U+201C and U+201D if the output device
  is "utf", otherwise define them as `` and ''.  Don't define them as
  `"` because that breaks when interpolating the strings in macro
  arguments.[4]

[1] https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an.new
[2]
e68293af91/sysvr4/svr4/ucbcmd/troff/troff.d/tmac.d/an (L46)
[3] https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mandoc/predefs.in?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
[4] https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html.node/Calling-Macros.html

   "For the (neutral) double quote, you have recourse to an obscure
   syntactical feature of AT&T troff. ..."

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