Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references.

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2018-12-17T23:45:06+0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> > > I think it would be better to extend groff to expose the
> > > underlying locale-aware C case-transformation functions,
> > > and _not_ try maintaining our own mappings.
> 
> > Indeed.  I don't think maintaining our own mappings is viable.
> > It just won't work, there are too many characters in Unicode.
> 
> I'm against this whole locale thing.  It needlessly complicates
> groff and will probably fail when reading foreign manual pages
> in a "C" locale.

That's _already_ a big fail, depending on the language.

> I'd rather have the authors of foreign language manual pages simply
> add the conversion string for that language at the top of the document
> source.

That's pretty wasteful.  And unnecessary, I would think--as Werner
pointed out, these conversion strings could be added to the
language-specific macro packages groff already provides[1].  I don't
know if the man program has to do any work to ensure they're loaded, but
that would again be a better place to do so.

Your proposal would also put more low-level requests into man page
sources, which Ingo and I (and everyone else who cares about anything
approaching semantic parseability of man pages) are trying to get _rid_
of.

Regards,
Branden

[1] $ ls -1 tmac/[a-z][a-z].tmac
tmac/an.tmac
tmac/cs.tmac
tmac/de.tmac
tmac/ec.tmac
tmac/fr.tmac
tmac/ja.tmac
tmac/me.tmac
tmac/ms.tmac
tmac/ps.tmac
tmac/sv.tmac
tmac/zh.tmac

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