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commit 82a7d41c1b678898c68866608d3765d8d44ac568
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Oct 15 06:28:11 2023 -0500
groff_char(7): Update \[ha] and \[ti] annotations.
They're not actually portable back to AT&T troff; see CSTR #54, 1976,
Table II. "The ASCII characters @, #, ", ´, `, <, >, \, {, }, ˜, ˆ, and
_ exist _only_ on the special font and are printed as a 1-em space if
that font is not mounted." (Yes, some of those characters aren't ASCII.
I'm showing you what they _look like in the document_, illustrating some
of the origin of the great post-Unicode "I want ASCII literals in my man
page" cluster headache of derpery.)
However as I have mentioned many times before, this is a serious
limitation only for actual Ossanna troff, which one would run only on
simulated PDP-11 and VAX machines these days--I've never heard even a
whisper that it was ever ported anywhere else--for retrocomputing
enjoyment or historical research. Kernighan troff (sometimes called
"ditroff") can be made to support these special character names (as well
as other useful groff ones like aq, dq, lq, dq, oq, and cq) by editing
text files. You'll find a few already present, depending on the device
and font.
---
man/groff_char.7.man | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/groff_char.7.man b/man/groff_char.7.man
index dee2e4aed..704a7eafa 100644
--- a/man/groff_char.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_char.7.man
@@ -403,9 +403,9 @@ _
\[aq] \[cq] closing single quote \f[CR]\[rs][aq]\f[] neutral apostrophe
\- - hyphen \f[CR]\[rs]\-\f[] or \f[CR]\[rs][\-]\f[] minus
sign/Unix dash
\[rs] (escape character) \f[CR]\[rs]e\f[] or \f[CR]\[rs][rs]\f[] reverse
solidus
-\[ha] \[u02C6] modifier circumflex \f[CR]\[rs](ha\f[]
circumflex/caret/\[lq]hat\[rq]
+\[ha] \[u02C6] modifier circumflex \f[CR]\[rs][ha]\f[]
circumflex/caret/\[lq]hat\[rq]
\[ga] \[oq] opening single quote \f[CR]\[rs](ga\f[] grave accent
-\[ti] \[u02DC] modifier tilde \f[CR]\[rs](ti\f[] tilde
+\[ti] \[u02DC] modifier tilde \f[CR]\[rs][ti]\f[] tilde
.TE
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