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Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote
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Dave Kemper |
Subject: |
Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Feb 2019 15:50:02 -0600 |
> Thus losing the ability to tell if I mistyped \(oq as \(cq with -Tascii
> or -Tlatin1?
To be fair, -Tascii and -Tlatin1 already lack the ability to
distinguish \(lq from \(rq -- and \(fo from \(la, and several others
(far more in -Tascii, of course).
Currently, \(ga and \(oq render the same. Under Ingo's proposed
change, \(oq and \(cq would render the same. Either way, you're
losing information. (This is a limitation imposed by the character
sets themselves: groff can produce more than 128 or 256 output
glyphs.)
And while you're more likely to mistype "oq" than "ga" for "cq," it
seems that distinguishing such characters is a use case outside the
intent of -Tascii and -Tlatin1. These flags are, in a philosophical
sense, flags for reading, not for editing. For terminal output to aid
editing/proofreading, -a is a better fit, as it produces a unique
string for every glyph.
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Doug McIlroy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Ralph Corderoy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Ralph Corderoy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Doug McIlroy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Doug McIlroy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Doug McIlroy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Ralph Corderoy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Ingo Schwarze, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Jeff Conrad, 2019/02/02
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Ingo Schwarze, 2019/02/02
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Ralph Corderoy, 2019/02/18
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Jeff Conrad, 2019/02/18
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Ralph Corderoy, 2019/02/19