[bug #51302] [patch] tty-char.tmac: focus on meaning rather than graphical shape

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                 Summary: [patch] tty-char.tmac: focus on meaning rather than
graphical shape
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Sat 24 Jun 2017 12:27:57 AM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wishlist
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

As discussed recently on <address@hidden>, if you care about graphical shape,
you are probably not using an ASCII output device, and if you are using an
ASCII output device, than *understanding* what you see is probably most
important.

So switch the policy in this file from "shape first" to "meaning first", even
though that policy existed from the dawn of time, when the file was first
created in 1991/92.

Werner Lemberg supported the general idea.


The following patch changes all those mathematical and other special
characters that i regard as being particularly hard to recognize from the
current rendering.  The patch is mildly conservative in so far as it leaves
those alone that are arguably intelligible (like ~ for logical not).

Also, i did intentionally not touch natural language letters and symbols in
this patch because discussing those might in principle bring up new arguments,
and this patch is already of sufficient size.

If it gets committed, i'll look at what remains to be done, try to find
consensus, and likely send another patch.



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