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Re: [Groff] Bullets in manual pages and -K groff option
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Bullets in manual pages and -K groff option |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:41:38 +0100 (CET) |
> > 1. An acute accent is not a quoting character. Anyone using an
> > acute accent for quoting is abusing this character.
>
> Agreed, Groff should be fixed. Also it probably should use Unicode
> bullets (not middle dots) for bullets.
I won't change the defaults. From the PROBLEMS file:
* The UTF-8 output of grotty has strange characters for the minus,
the hyphen, and the right quote. Why?
The used Unicode characters (U+2212 for the minus sign and U+2010
for the hyphen) are the correct ones, but many programs can't search
them properly. The same is true for the right quote (U+201D). To
map those characters back to the ASCII characters, insert the
following code snippet into the `troffrc' configuration file:
.if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
. char \- \N'45'
. char - \N'45'
. char ' \N'39'
.\}
Feel free to do similar things for all output you dislike.
Werner
[Groff] Re: Bullets in manual pages and -K groff option, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/01/26