Re: [Groff] Re: groff: radical re-implementation

[CHOI Junho]

>>>>> "FU" == Fumitoshi UKAI <address@hidden> writes:

    FU> At Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:19:09 +0900,
    FU> Tomohiro KUBOTA <address@hidden> wrote:

    >  Though you may already know, please note that
    >   - Japanese and Chinese text contains few whitespace characters.
    >     (Japanese and Chinese words are not separated by whitespace).
    >     Therefore, different line-breaking algorithm should be used.
    >     (Hyphen character is not used when a word is broken into lines.)
    >     (Modern Korean language contains whitespace characters between
    >     words --- though not words, strictly speaking.)

    FU> As regards line breaking algorithm, I think we need some more cflags,
    FU> at least for Japanese.  That is,
 
[...]

    FU> For tty output device, UTF-8 and postprocessor may be possible, but
    FU> how about X, ps, or dvi?

It sounds to me that we should make the beast again :< How about
making a good roff -> html converter and call mozilla to do proper
conversion(X11, ps, text, etc...)? :) Just kidding. sorry.

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