Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs

[P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

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From: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs

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> > (and you can even write Finnish with them ;). Considering that groff
> > made do with the 7-bit limitation of old troff and ditroff, I
> > thought that groff had already an internal mechanism to map the
> > accent macros to the actual font glyphs.
>
> It's very easy to use the real composite glyphs with the \[..]
> mechanism, e.g. \[,C] for Ccedilla.  And you can easily define new
> glyphs with the .char request, as Ted has pointed out.  Nevertheless,
> it is not possible to change the postfix macros of both ms and mm to
> do that -- groff has no possibility to remove glyphs already
> processed, and the concept of `active characters' (to use TeX's
> parlance) is not known to groff.
>
>
>     Werner

Ahh! I see. Then, the easiest method is 8-bit characters (I am lazy :), or
use the \[<digraph>] mecanism. I can live with that.

Examining the .MA macros in mgs I wonder if they can be included in mgm
without breaking anything. Is it possible?