Follow-up Comment #9, bug #67817 (group groff): At 2026-01-20T13:48:51-0500, Dave wrote: > Update of bug #67817 (group groff): > > Summary: [troff] restore defined-character detail to > approximate (-a) output => [troff] in approximate (-a) output, provide detail [...] > Follow-up Comment #8: > > Comment #6 points out that -a output could reflect info known to the > output driver rather than info contained only on the input side, and > still report useful info. So troff needn't "restore" the old behavior > to resolve this. Revising Summary accordingly.
A syntax that occurred to me, and would do no more violence to `-a`
output than was already present in groff 1.23.0 and earlier is:
<S glyph-name-in-font>
<N glyph-index-in-font>
Since a space is not valid in a *roff identifier (nor in a font
description file's glyph name), this _should_ be unambiguous.
User-defined characters would still be unidentified as such, because
their contents would be traversed into and formatted as requested in
bug #55799.
_______________________________________________________
Reply to this item at:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67817>
_______________________________________________
Message sent via Savannah
https://savannah.gnu.org/
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
