[bug #59839] Macro file providing glyph names based on RFC 1345

[Dorai Sitaram]

URL:
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                 Summary: Macro file providing glyph names based on RFC 1345
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: ds26gte
            Submitted on: Thu 07 Jan 2021 09:39:41 PM UTC
                Category: Macro - others
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: New feature
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

I've created a repo https://gitlab.com/ds26gte/groff1345 containing a macro
file (plus man page) to address the issue mentioned in the groff mailing-list
thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-01/msg00000.html

RFC 1345 is a long list of short mnemonics describing a raft of Unicode
glyphs. The file rfc1345.tmac contains escape-sequence definitions based on
these mnemonics, giving a standard, intuitive way to refer to these glyphs in
addition to the hex-number approach that's built into modern groff. 

The two-character mnemonics of RFC 1345 are already fairly familiar to the
software community because of their use as digraphs in the popular text editor
Vim. RFC 1345 was last modified in 1992, and Vim has since added (just) four
additional glyphs missing in the RFC. These tackle the horizonal ellipsis, and
the currency symbols for euro and rouble. I've included these too, giving a
total of 1696 groff glyph names.

The repo includes a draft man page groff_rfc1345.tmac. It probably requires
considerable modification to suit groff style and terminology.

Thanks to Doug McIlroy for suggesting how to arrange the contribution for
possible inclusion in a future groff release.




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