Re: Bug#196762: [Groff] Groff Version in Debian and [K]ubuntu

[brian m. carlson]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:13:43PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
[adding kinsoku shori handling]
> I would be overjoyed if somebody got us out from between the rock and
> the hard place. CVS would be fine.

Excellent.  I'll start work today.

> Basically the top-level goal is that man(1) keeps on working at least as
> well as before in Japanese locales. (I think Chinese sort of works at
> the moment, but probably not perfectly.) If that's taken care of, I'm
> really not too bothered about how! I am fed up with being stuck at an
> old version of groff.

If you could get some testcases posted to the bug (and CC'd to me), then 
I'll make sure that those work.  Maybe Ukai-san has a few documents up 
his sleeve.

> I was under the impression that groff needed glyph classes in order to
> implement kinsoku shori.

That's one way to do it, I'm sure.  I was planning on abusing the 
hyphenation and filling code, but I could always implement glyph classes 
instead.  I'll probably implement the glyph classes, since that needs to 
be done anyway, and it is the Right Way to do it.

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