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Carsten Kunze |
Subject: |
[groff] 01/01: groff_char(7): improve description of ASCII chars |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Apr 2017 15:18:43 -0400 (EDT) |
carstenkunze pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 3e9bfff922e540641e318eaf94994db720060cd4
Author: Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden>
Date: Sat Apr 29 21:17:20 2017 +0200
groff_char(7): improve description of ASCII chars
Improve description of ASCII characters that do not render as
themselves.
See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50898
---
ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++
man/groff_char.7.man | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 041a7f7..ba059c8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2017-04-29 Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden>
+
+ groff_char(7): improve description of ASCII characters
+
+ * man/groff_char.7.man: improve description of ASCII
+ characters that do not render as themselves
+
+ See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50898
+
2017-04-28 Osamu Sayama
lkbib with empty file dumps core
diff --git a/man/groff_char.7.man b/man/groff_char.7.man
index 1869f95..e38c70b 100644
--- a/man/groff_char.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_char.7.man
@@ -254,35 +254,46 @@ themselves; the only exceptions are the following
characters:
.TP
.B \`
the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Grave Accent\[cq] (code\ 96) prints as \[oq], a
-left single quotation mark; the original character can be obtained
-with \[oq]\f(CW\e`\fP\[cq].
+left single quotation mark (Unicode u2018).
+The same output glyph can be requested explicitly
+with \[oq]\f(CW\e(oq\fP\[cq].
+The original character can be obtained
+with \[oq]\f(CW\e`\fP\[cq] (Unicode u0060).
.
.
.TP
.B \*(aq
-the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Apostrophe\[cq] (code\ 39) prints as ', a right
-single quotation mark; the original character can be obtained with
-\[oq]\f(CW\e(aq\fP\[cq].
+the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Apostrophe\[cq] (code\ 39) prints as \[cq],
+a right single quotation mark (Unicode u2019).
+The same output glyph is commonly used in typography to represent
+a punctation apostrophe, for example in contractions.
+It can be requested explicitly with \[oq]\f(CW\e(cq\fP\[cq].
+The original character can be obtained with
+\[oq]\f(CW\e(aq\fP\[cq] (Unicode u0027).
.
.
.TP
.B -
the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Hyphen, Minus Sign\[cq] (code\ 45) prints as a
-hyphen; a minus sign can be obtained with \[oq]\f(CW\e-\fP\[cq].
+hyphen (Unicode u2010).
+The same output glyph can be requested explicitly
+with \[oq]\f(CW\e(hy\fP\[cq].
+A minus sign can be obtained with \[oq]\f(CW\e(mi\fP\[cq] (Unicode u2212).
.
.
.TP
.B ~
the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Tilde\[cq] (code\ 126) is reduced in size to be
-usable as a diacritic; a larger glyph can be obtained with
-\[oq]\f(CW\e(ti\fP\[cq].
+usable as a diacritic (Unicode u02DC).
+A larger glyph can be obtained with
+\[oq]\f(CW\e(ti\fP\[cq] (Unicode u007E).
.
.
.TP
.B ^
the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Circumflex Accent\[cq] (code\ 94) is reduced in
-size to be usable as a diacritic; a larger glyph can be obtained with
-\[oq]\f(CW\e(ha\fP\[cq].
+size to be usable as a diacritic (Unicode u02C6); a larger glyph
+can be obtained with \[oq]\f(CW\e(ha\fP\[cq] (Unicode u005E).
.
.
.P
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