Dear All,
let me remind you what Werner already said on the la/ra issue
about 09 MAr 2005, while discussing "ubuntu, groff and utf-8"
PS. Are you sure that mapping in devutf8 fonts (and other places)
`la' and `ra' to 0x27E8(MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET) and 0x27E9
is a good idea?
For UTF-8, this is the right solution IMHO. The other choice, U+2329,
is problematic due to its canonical equivalence to the CJK left angle
bracket, U+3008. It's easy to override this locally.
It do not think many fonts have that Math Symbols, while `la' and
`ra' are often used in roff files in non-math context
Really? Can you give an example?
.URL from www.tmac uses la and ra
.URL is often used in the groff man pages.
Aah, I see. Can you do a survey which characters for la and ra could
be used also, this is, what popular UTF8 console fonts actually have?
It should be straightforward to add a fallback character with `.fchar'
to tty.tmac:
.fchar \[la] <
.fchar \[ra] >
perhaps using something `better' than `<' and `>'.
Sincerely, Michail (speaking for Werner)
PS. BTW, can you point me to a font having that
MATHEMATICAL * ANGLE BRACKETs ?
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