Re: [bug #62955] [PATCH] [grops] \(va fallback character overrides glyph available in S font]

2022-09-13 Thread G. Branden Robinson
If anyone objects to this, please speak up soon or be prepared to wait for groff (1.23)++ to revert it. Also, if someone can better recollect what I'm trying to remember about fonts with distinct serif and non-serif copyright signs and similar, please throw some light on it. Regards, Branden ---

Re: 1.23: UTF-8 device produces mysterious characters

2022-09-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Steffen, > Hyphen is good at the end of line when a word is hyphenated, otherwise > it is misplaced. Not in English. A hyphen may be used to join compound adjectives, as a two-minute Google would show. :-) An ‘American-football player’ isn't necessarily American whereas an ‘American footbal

Re: 1.23: UTF-8 device produces mysterious characters

2022-09-13 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Dave Kemper wrote in : |On 9/12/22, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: ... |Groff has converted an input U+002D to a proper hyphen in typeset |output for decades. It has done so in UTF-8 output since at least |groff 1.19.2. ... This is not true. I never have seen anything but hyphen-minus on my box

Re: 1.23: UTF-8 device produces mysterious characters

2022-09-13 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
G. Branden Robinson wrote in <20220913053400.7lmdp2qpxb6zweei@illithid>: |At 2022-09-12T23:41:34+0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> This is not a hyphenated word. |[rearranging this a bit] |> En dash would look nice, i could imagine. | |Then use en dashes in your input. | | on\[en]loop\[en]

Re: 1.23: UTF-8 device produces mysterious characters

2022-09-13 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Ralph Corderoy wrote in <20220913084152.0211621...@orac.inputplus.co.uk>: |Hi Steffen, | |> Hyphen is good at the end of line when a word is hyphenated, otherwise |> it is misplaced. | |Not in English. A hyphen may be used to join compound adjectives, as a |two-minute Google would show. :

Re: 1.23: UTF-8 device produces mysterious characters

2022-09-13 Thread Dave Kemper
On 9/13/22, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Dave Kemper wrote in > : > |Groff has converted an input U+002D to a proper hyphen in typeset > |output for decades. It has done so in UTF-8 output since at least > |groff 1.19.2. > > This is not true. I never have seen anything but hyphen-minus on > my

Re: 1.23: UTF-8 device produces mysterious characters

2022-09-13 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Dave Kemper wrote in : How about [12066c659ea454a663483a12181a0c33cf416b22]. This looks promising. Thank you. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer,The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Ger

Re: 1.23: UTF-8 device produces mysterious characters

2022-09-13 Thread Dave Kemper
On 9/13/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> Or look at the Unicode standard, where real great minds with >> incredible multi-national professional life careers are involved, >> get the official PDF (hr-hrm, i have not updated since Unicode >> 13..), combined words are separated with hyphen-minus, _n