Do you think importing debian's version of instant (docbook2man) would help at all? https://packages.debian.org/sid/docbook-to-man
Thank you for your time, -Chase ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, November 18, 2019 6:51 PM, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've just merged the utf8-conversion branch to master. This branch > converts the languages from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8. This was done for the > message catalogs, resources and other related files. > > However, documentation (help, manpages, and the dtinfo guides) are still > always built using the ISO8859-1 locales. > > To support UTF-8 documentation, our docbook sources and text need to be > updated to something from this century, and ideally from this decade. > In addition, a conversion to XML would also be required as a result. > So, until that happens, we still need ISO8859-1 for the docs. This also > means viewing the docs while in a utf8 locale may show anomalies as > non-utf8 8 bit sequences might not be rendered properly. > > I had tried to convert the docs blindly to utf-8, which worked fine > initially, but the tools we are using crapped out all over the place, > and especially instant (used to create the help text) crashed quite > frequently. I hate instant. > > So, I decided not to 'hack' it - it needs to be done correctly. > > There are undoubtedly some issues with this conversion - for example > dtterm does not handle UTF-8 sequences properly where 2 or more > characters are supposed to be drawn in the same cell (overlay ed) for > example. As always, patches welcome. > > A choice of good ISO10646 X11 fonts also needs to be selected. Ideally > fonts that look decent and have a good coverage of the utf-8 character > space and will work properly with CDE's rather awkward font configurator. > > It would be good to explore XFT on CDE too, as this can help - it can > select glyphs from other fonts if a font you are using does not support > a glyph, for example. Plus all that anti-aliasing goodness, and the > generally better quality and completeness of TTF fonts. > > But, if anyone has suggestions for good fontsets we can configure CDE > with (via cde's fonts.alias files), let us know. > > Since at least linux and the BSD's are using essentially the same X11 > environment and software, we should be able to come up with something > that will work for most users out of the box. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Jon Trulson > > "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." > -- Sheldon > > cdesktopenv-devel mailing list > cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
