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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[groff] 29/35: groff_char(7): Recast accent/composite stuff. |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 06:15:59 -0500 (EST) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 91a048aa09f5c77456ab83373c2a86e73293afc2
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 21 04:42:27 2022 +1100
groff_char(7): Recast accent/composite stuff.
Add a "Files" section as well, in pursuit of the quest to document all
of our macro files.
---
man/groff_char.7.man | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/groff_char.7.man b/man/groff_char.7.man
index 9fd8ffda..25d8e18a 100644
--- a/man/groff_char.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_char.7.man
@@ -1025,11 +1025,28 @@ _
.SS Accents
.\" ====================================================================
.
-The
+Normally,
+the formatting of a special character advances the drawing position as
+an ordinary character does.
+.
+.IR groff 's
.B composite
-request is used to map the accents to code points with non-spacing
-semantics;
-the values given in parentheses are their spacing counterparts.
+request designates a special character as combining.
+.
+The
+.I composite.tmac
+macro file,
+loaded automatically by default,
+maps the following special characters to the combining characters shown
+below.
+.
+The non-combining code point in parentheses is used when the special
+character occurs in isolation
+(compare
+.RB \[lq] "caf\[rs][e aa]" \[rq]
+and
+.RB \[lq] "caf\[rs][aa]e" \[rq]).
+.
.
.TS
l l l lx.
@@ -1057,7 +1074,7 @@ _
.
All of these glyphs can be composed using combining glyph names as
described in subsection \[lq]Special character escape forms\[rq] above;
-the names below can be thought of as short aliases for convenience.
+the names below are short aliases for convenience.
.
.TS
l l l lx.
@@ -1754,6 +1771,15 @@ _
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
+.SH Files
+.\" ====================================================================
+.
+.TP
+.I @MACRODIR@/\:\%composite\:.tmac
+See subsection \[lq]Accents\[rq] above.
+.
+.
+.\" ====================================================================
.SH Authors
.\" ====================================================================
.
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