URL:
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Summary: groff_char(7) manual: improve description of ASCII
characters that do not render as themselves
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: schwarze
Submitted on: Sat 29 Apr 2017 06:57:30 PM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Wishlist
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
This patch improves the section "7-bit Character Codes 32126" in the
groff_char(7) manual in five respects:
1. Add clarity by giving the Unicode numbers for each output glyph.
2. Add even more clarity by also giving the character names that can be used
to explicitly request each specific glyph, rather than simply typing some
ASCII character.
3. Correct the output glyph for the input "'". In a manual page, "'" does not
render as a right single quotation mark (Unicode u2019), so we really need
\[cq] here.
4. Add a sentence explaining that in typography, the right single quotation
mark is usually used to represent the punctation apostrophe as well, to avoid
misleading people into writing "don\(aqt".
5. Recommend \(mi if people explicitly want a minus sign rather than \-,
because in some macro sets, \- may render as an ASCII hyphen-minus and *not*
as a minus sign.
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Date: Sat 29 Apr 2017 06:57:30 PM UTC Name: groff_char.patch Size: 2kB By:
schwarze
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=40534>
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