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Re: nroff does not honor TYPESETTER
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Michael G Schwern |
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Re: nroff does not honor TYPESETTER |
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Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:31:15 -0800 |
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Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> However, I believe the nroff wrapper should still honor TYPESETTER
>> as it is attempting to be compatible with nroff and that's how nroff
>> worked by my reading of the documentation.
>
> You can't assume in general that the devices have the same name. For
> example, `37', `450', `lp' are valid (TTY) nroff drivers for AT&T
> troff but not for groff.
>
>> Or are you saying that TYPESETTER was part of a specific
>> implementation of nroff?
>
> This is the only clean solution IMHO.
Ok, I bow to your expertise. :)
>>>> Additionally, I wouldn't be upset if groff stopped mapping ASCII
>>>> input characters into Unicode.
>>> This has been already discussed, and I'll fix that somehow for man
>>> pages (but not in general).
>> Thank you. Will that apply to "nroff -man"?
>
> Yes. The fix will be part of the man macros.
Excellent. That will solve perldoc's issues.
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