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Re: [Groff] Latin-2 woes...
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Latin-2 woes... |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:33:30 +0100 |
Hi,
> > Nevertheless, the general solution is to write a proper input
> > encoding file to map Latin-2 to glyph names; something like
> >
> > .char £ \[/L]
> > .char ³ \[/l]
> > ...
>
> I don't quite follow. '.char' isn't a groff macro, is it ? (4 letters ?)
Sure is. Look at groff's troff(1) man page.
.char c string
Define character c to be string. Every time char- acter c
needs to be printed, string will be pro- cessed in a
temporary environment and the result will be wrapped up into a
single object. Compati- bility mode will be turned off and
the escape char- acter will be set to \ while string is being
pro- cessed. Any emboldening, constant spacing or track
kerning will be applied to this object rather than to
individual characters in string. A character defined by this
request can be used just like a normal character provided
by the output device. In particular other characters can be
translated to it with the tr request; it can be made the
leader character by the lc request; repeated patterns can be
drawn with the character using the \l and \L escape
sequences; words containing the character can be
hyphenated correctly, if the hcode request is used to give the
character a hyphenation code. There is a special
anti-recursion feature: use of character within the character's
definition will be handled like normal characters not
defined with char. A character definition can be removed
with the rchar request.
The two letter restriction has gone for many things in groff.
Ralph.
- [Groff] Hello to you all !, Lukasz Wiechec, 2000/10/04
- Re: [Groff] Hello to you all !, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/06
- Re: [Groff] Hello to you all !, Lukasz Wiechec, 2000/10/08
- Re: [Groff] Hello to you all !, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/08
- Re: [Groff] Hello to you all ! a digression..., Thomas Baruchel, 2000/10/08
- Re: [Groff] Latin-2 woes..., Lukasz Wiechec, 2000/10/08
- Re: [Groff] Latin-2 woes..., Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/10
- Re: [Groff] Latin-2 woes..., Lukasz Wiechec, 2000/10/11
- Re: [Groff] Latin-2 woes...,
Ralph Corderoy <=
- Re: [Groff] Latin-2 woes..., Ted Harding, 2000/10/12
- Re: [Groff] Latin-2 woes..., Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/12