Re: neatroff for Russian. (Was: Questions concerning hyphenation patterns for non-Latin languages, e.g. Russian)

[Robin Haberkorn]

Hello!

I can confirm that Neatroff (and Heirloom Troff) works well for typesetting 
Russian texts including hyphenation.
BUT, I found them unsuitable for complex scientific texts as their ms macros are 
buggy and tbl is somewhat limited. Regarding Neatroff, I found that its 
hyperlinking capabilities are extremely limited.

For future texts I therefore wanted to return to Groff (where we also have the 
excellent MOM macros). Not being able to hyphenate UTF-8 Cyrillic text is a 
major limitation for me. I might get away with converting it to KOI8 first, but 
could I still mix in Unicode characters this way (as they are considered special 
characters by Groff)?

Perhaps I will have a look at the hyphenation code and try to fix it. Hacking 
the typesetter is always a perfect distraction from the work you are supposed to 
do instead. ;-)

Yours sincerely,
Robin

26.04.23 14:10, Ralph Corderoy пишет:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> Are you aware there are other troff implementations than GNU's groff?
> Neatroff is one.  Ali Gholami Rudi wrote it because he wanted better
> Unicode support for foreign languages, including right-to-left text.
> He seems very much of your mould in needs.
>
> A good summary of its features is http://litcave.rudi.ir/neatroff.pdf
> I see UTF-8 hyphenation files mentioned.
> There's also whole-paragraph formatting and lots of other delights.
> Rudi's http://litcave.rudi.ir has a Typesetting section past the initial
> list of recent changes to his software.
>
> Feel free to continue discussing neatroff here along with general troff
> questions.