Follow-up Comment #8, bug #55154 (project groff): Everything else I wanted to say (here and in bug #64337) I ended up talking myself out of. All I have left are two minor comments on the documentation update.
[comment #6 comment #6:] > > This feature replaces the odd-parity tr mapping trick "replaces" implies that the odd-parity trick has gone away. Maybe "augments" or "parallels"? > > Translation of a character to \~ is unnecessary. This seems unnecessarily opinionated for technical documentation. Arguably all translations are unnecessary. But they're a useful tool, allowing you to (1) simplify or make more legible your input, or (2) treat certain characters conditionally (e.g. based on the output device). I'm not sure it's fair to characterize mapping to \~ as any more or less necessary than mapping to any other character. The goal presumably being to steer users away from a mapping that may be deprecated, saying so directly probably serves the reader better, e.g.: "Translation of a character to \~ may be deprecated in a future release." _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55154> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/