Oh yea, an update that I just got today from Colin, saying that Groff 1.20.1 has been intregrated into Debian Sid, and that the debian patch is now reduced in size.
I thank myself for getting Groff 1.20.1 into Debian Unstable, because of that email relay. (He diddn't know about Groff 1.20.1 before I notified him.) William ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Colin Watson <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:28 AM Subject: Re: Groff update, are you acepeting it? To: William Immendorf <[email protected]> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:46:31PM -0600, William Immendorf wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Don't hold your breath; this is not as trivial as all that. I'm still > > looking at it on and off, but it may take a while. I recently uploaded groff 1.20.1 to Debian unstable. The Debian patch is now quite small and you may not need it any more. > > In the meantime, simply discarding the Debian multibyte patch means that > > CJK support *almost* works with current man-db and groff. The remaining > > problems are: > > > > * groff doesn't know that CJK characters are double-width, so you get > > the effect where each line of output is a little under twice as long > > as the terminal; > > > > * groff doesn't know the rules for which characters can begin or end > > lines (kinsoku shori, as above). > > > > * I think groff is also missing the rules for kerning between CJK and > > Latin characters, although I'd have to check that. > > > > All these problems ought to be solved by way of character classes, which > > is what I'm working on at the moment. I'll be sending updates to the > > groff mailing list once I have something to show. However, in the > > meantime, you might decide that the above problems are not critical > > (maybe you don't have many Japanese users, or maybe they can be tolerant > > of wrapping problems for a while), and in that case groff 1.20.1 should > > be perfectly workable for you. These remain issues, but CJK manual pages are at least readable despite the wrapping problems, so I decided in the end to go ahead. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
