Re: [Groff] Re: Bug#552201: groff-base: Japanese manpages are shown with too wide spaces

[Daiki Ueno]

Thanks Werner and Colin for the insightful comments.

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

> However, a very important piece is still missing: documentation!  I
> won't commit the changes otherwise.

I'm now preparing the documentation.  One question:

> the `classes' keyword for font files, ...

What is the keyword supposed to work?  I didn't notice that since it is
currently not used in any font file and seems not to affect the run-time
behavior.  Perhaps a wreck of the original patch?

> I second that; it's not necessary to do that so I'll omit these
> changes to nroff.

Good to know that man-db already has the hook to load locale macros :)

> I think that the (current) contents of ja.tmac is essentially
> universal, not restricted to Japanese.

Yes and probably CJK languages can share a single .tmac for kinsoku
processing, since the kinsoku rules for those languages are not likely
to overlap each other.

I'm now trying to extend current ja.tmac to support Chinese and Korean:
http://ueno.fedorapeople.org/groff/make-cjk-tmac/

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno