Re: Accent mystery

2024-02-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Peter, At 2024-02-19T12:39:53-0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > Your minimal file renders fine on my system without -Kutf8 *and* I > recently encountered a file with a single accented character where > passing -Kutf8 had no effect (I had to introduce the character > "silently" in an unused

[bug #64233] [troff] make requests' treatment of Boolean arguments more consistent

2024-02-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Update of bug#64233 (group groff): Severity: 3 - Normal => 1 - Wish Item Group: Warning/Suspicious behaviour => Feature change Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:

Re: [idea] troff -Troff

2024-02-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-02-19T22:12:53-0500, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > The question is whether or not man macros can be expanded > > to their groff equivalents. > > If you'd consider a preprocessor based on groff, there's a > notionally simple way to get a copy of the input with macros > and strings expanded:

Re: [idea] troff -Troff

2024-02-19 Thread Douglas McIlroy
> The question is whether or not man macros can be expanded > to their groff equivalents. If you'd consider a preprocessor based on groff, there's a notionally simple way to get a copy of the input with macros and strings expanded: Provide a groff option that has the side effect of sending

Re: [idea] troff -Troff

2024-02-19 Thread James K. Lowden
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 17:14:37 -0600 "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > > For example, would a man(7) parser need to recognize groff(7) > > requests? > > Ingo Schwarze is well placed to answer that, Looking at it more closely, perhaps I see what concerns you. It's not parsing the man page. It's

Re: RECTO_VERSO uses wrong margins

2024-02-19 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Mon, Feb 19, 2024, Samuel Stoddard wrote: > Hi! I'm having a problem using the .RECTO_VERSO macro, namely that for all > of the verso pages the left margin is about 3 inches more than it should > be, and the page content is shifted off the physical dimensions of the > page. Update to the

RECTO_VERSO uses wrong margins

2024-02-19 Thread Samuel Stoddard
Hi! I'm having a problem using the .RECTO_VERSO macro, namely that for all of the verso pages the left margin is about 3 inches more than it should be, and the page content is shifted off the physical dimensions of the page. I don't know if this is actually about margins, though -- it might be

[bug #65246] [grops] download file does not handle .pfa filenames which contain spaces

2024-02-19 Thread Dave
Follow-up Comment #3, bug#65246 (group groff): This fix addresses one of the complaints of bug #58036. Also, to add to the fix's NEWS item's sentence "The download file for grops shipped by groff has long used tabs rather than spaces for field separation": fortunately, so have the "download"

Re: Accent mystery

2024-02-19 Thread Peter Schaffter
Robert -- On Mon, Feb 19, 2024, Robert Goulding via wrote: > I have been trying to figure this out all morning! I have a handout with > the word "kataskeuê" in it. Every time I try to compile it (groff -Tpdf -k > -ms) I get the warning: warning: special character 'u0053_0326' not defined > (Same

Re: Accent mystery

2024-02-19 Thread Robert Goulding via
A, thank you so much (I needed to RTFM!) - R. On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 12:44 PM G. Branden Robinson < g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > At 2024-02-19T12:40:16-0500, Robert Goulding via wrote: > > To answer my own question: It seems that preconv is not guessing the > >

Re: Accent mystery

2024-02-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Robert, At 2024-02-19T12:40:16-0500, Robert Goulding via wrote: > To answer my own question: It seems that preconv is not guessing the > correct encoding from the file with a single word in it. If I specify > -K utf-8 everything works OK. > > preconv -v reports: GNU preconv (groff) version

Re: Accent mystery

2024-02-19 Thread Robert Goulding via
To answer my own question: It seems that preconv is not guessing the correct encoding from the file with a single word in it. If I specify -K utf-8 everything works OK. preconv -v reports: GNU preconv (groff) version 1.23.0 with iconv support and with uchardet support Is this an expected

Accent mystery

2024-02-19 Thread Robert Goulding via
I have been trying to figure this out all morning! I have a handout with the word "kataskeuê" in it. Every time I try to compile it (groff -Tpdf -k -ms) I get the warning: warning: special character 'u0053_0326' not defined (Same if I go the ps2pdf route) Try and compile this minimal file .LP