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Re: Two trivial questions
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: Two trivial questions |
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Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:50:07 -0400 |
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> It's g-roff, just as ed(1) is e-d. History and culture are important so
> it's worth persisting and educating gently in the background,
> e.g. groff(1) should start
>
> This document describes the groff program, pronounced ‘gee-roff’, ...
+1 It's the perfect solution.
> > Second question, maybe not so trivial. Is it acceptable to use a
> > comma for decimal fractions that are arguments to requests and macros
> > (say .ps 12,5 instead of .ps 12.5) if a user's locale supports it?
>
> No, because: troff's input is more code than data; and allowing it
> removes an option for future expansion.
This is what I assumed. I asked because a document in Spanish I was
reviewing used comma-separated decimal values for the dimensions of
a pdf image. The decimal was sufficiently small that I couldn't
discern visually whether it was being respected. I expected groff
to barf if the input were invalid, but it didn't.
--
Peter Schaffter
https://www.schaffter.ca
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