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Summary: [eqn] "digit" type seems to have a bad name
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Mon 22 May 2023 01:56:49 PM UTC
Category: Preprocessor eqn
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Mon 22 May 2023 01:56:49 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
>From my working copy:
+(The
+.RB \[lq] digit \[rq]
+type is not used by default,
+but is available for customization.)
+.\" XXX: How would you actually customize it, though? There doesn't
+.\" seem to be a means of replacing the font associated with a type.
+.\" Is the "digit" type just cruft?
"digit" seems to really mean "non-letter". Maybe "nonletter" would be a
better name. See the only test of its value.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/src/preproc/eqn/text.cpp?h=1.23.0.rc4#n496
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