Re: [Groff] groff - me /texte français

[Grégoire Babey]

Hi Ralph, 

thanks a lot for your answer. Your command works fine.
I wondered where do you have this information from: I was searching in
man groff about the -k option, than in man preconv.  I understood that
-k  make use of preconv, which can convert utf-8 to Latin1. 

I can find out by myself with which caracters I will have to use "\n". 
But try this:

printf 'testé\n, ü\nber, ç\na' | groff -k -me -X

There is a space too much between é and , because of \n
Is there a solution for that? 

I tried something myself: The following command is not the solution: 
printf 'testé\, ü\ber, ç\a' | groff -k -me -X


... further I was reading around in the manual about groff -k and after
which characters you have to use \n. 
I didn't found anything.

You are great help for me. 

many greathings,
Grégoire







Le dimanche 04 août 2013 à 19:20 +0100, Ralph Corderoy a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> > The commands you send to me works fine for me too. My point is: in
> > place of:
> > $ printf 'test\xe9\n' | groff -me -mlatin9 -X
> > it would be much faster and easier to write
> > $ printf 'testé' | groff -me -mlatin9 -X
> > but this command doesn't work
> 
> troff takes ISO-8859-1 as its default input.  If you want to feed it
> UTF-8 then look at groff's -k option.  Try
> 
>     printf 'testé\n' | groff -k -me -X
> 
> > I don't understand what is the use of -mlatin9 because
> > $ printf 'test\xe9\n' | groff -me -mlatin9 -X
> > ...give the same result as
> > $ printf 'test\xe9\n' | groff -me -X
> 
> troff's default for input is ISO-8859-1.  9 is very similar to 1 so you
> aren't seeing any differences in your test.  Using a Euro symbol may
> help.
> 
> Cheers, Ralph.