retitle 413161 ".I $" is printed as pound sign in DVI output reassign 413161 groff thanks
* Reuben Thomas: > There seems to be some problem with the way the Cook documentation is > processed into DVI: for example, at the start of section 14 on page > 92, the environment variable referred to as "$COOK" comes out as > "£COOK". This is arguably a groff bug. It uses the "$" character from the cmitt10 font, which is a pound sign. Here's a small example: .TH TEST 1 "" "" "" .SH NAME .I $test (Run it with "groff -Tdvi -man".) Here's the output from dvitype: 137: fntdef1 2: cmitt10 160: fntnum2 current font is cmitt10 161: right2 28908 h:=0+28908=28908, hh:=150 [ ] 164: down2 9636 v:=9636+9636=19272, vv:=100 167: push level 0:(h=28908,v=19272,w=0,x=0,y=0,z=0,hh=150,vv=100) 168: setchar36 h:=28908+4199=33107, hh:=172 [$] 169: fntdef1 3: cmti10 191: fntnum3 current font is cmti10 192: setchar116 h:=33107+2657=35764, hh:=186 193: setchar101 h:=35764+3679=39443, hh:=205 194: setchar115 h:=39443+3271=42714, hh:=222 195: setchar116 h:=42714+2657=45371, hh:=236 [test] 196: pop > (Quite aside from questions like: shouldn't it be simply "COOK"? and > "what is DVI documentation doing in this package *as well as* > PostScript?!) Historical reasons, I guess. Good Postscript viewers with acceptable performance weren't available during most of the 90s. It probably makes sense to not install these
