Re: [Groff] Re: html and accents problem

[P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 11:21 a.m. 27/03/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> > There are several bugs not related to the problem I reported
> > initially that seems to have showed up in these files. No mattter
> > what I do, I can't set up the page offset in the Quevedo's [ms]
> > document.
>
> You have to use .po directly.
>
> This is very strange.  Changing the PO register works only *after* the
> first page.  Why?  At least the ms macros on Solaris behave similarly,
> so it seems intentional.  Has someone an explanation?

Hmm... It could be that one is expected to use a cover page? Not a good 
assumption though.


[snip]

> BTW, you did the following:
>
>   .hcode ¿ ¿ ¡ ¡ « « » »
>
> This is not a good idea.  groff now thinks that those characters are
> letters also w.r.t hyphenation.  In case of, say, `thisisalongword«',
> groff no longer finds the correct right border of the word, so it may
> miss some hyphenation patterns.

I'll never do this kind of hard thinking on weekend midnights, ever again.

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