Werner, > Please always bear in mind that groff is actually a typesetting > program, not a `man' filter! TTY output is handled similarly to other > decives like PS. This has advantages, but also some disadvantages. > What you want to do probably needs a lot of `Extrawürschte' just for > TTY output, and this must be done very carefully since my main goal is > to have good support for Unicode for all output devices.
I'll try to remember this. (We are not yet dealing with bidi and Devanagari vowel reordering...) > > 1) Should the output of 'troff' contain Unicode characters or glyphs? > > I.e. u0045 then u0302 then u0301, or u0045_0302_0301 as a single > > entity? > > groff always contains glyphs, similar to TeX, so you have > u0045_0302_0301. Good. > > 2) Do you agree that the case u0078_0302_0301 should be handled the > > same way as u0045_0302_0301? (For one of them the precomposed > > character is contained in Unicode, for the other it isn't.) > > Yes. Normalization form D will always applied. OK, now I have something to work on :-) Thanks. Bruno _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
