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Re: [Groff] ASCII dash in UTF-8 locale
From: |
Carsten Kunze |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] ASCII dash in UTF-8 locale |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:05:24 +0100 (CET) |
Hello Ingo and Anthony,
> That shouldn't happen in manual pages. Both tmac/an-old.tmac
> and tmac/doc.tmac contain:
>
> .\" For UTF-8, map some characters conservatively for the sake
> .\" of easy cut and paste.
> .
> .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
> . rchar \- - ' `
> .
> . char \- \N'45'
> . char - \N'45'
> . char ' \N'39'
> . char ` \N'96'
> .\}
it indeed works with -mdoc (didn't test -man). I use -mdoc for manpages too
but in case of my document a manpage is not the suited format, it's rather in a
book format which I view with nroff.
So for GNU nroff I'll inlcude the above statements in my document...
Thanks,
Carsten