Werner Lember wrote:
> Under normal circumstances, `shc' is never a glyph in groff. From the
> NEWS file:
>
> Using the latin-1 input character 0xAD (soft hyphen) for the `shc'
> request was a bad idea. Instead, it is now translated to `\%', and
> the default hyphenation character is again \[hy]. Note that the
> glyph \[shc] is not useful for typographic purposes; it only exists
> to have glyph names for all latin-1 characters.
>
> With other words, if you need a soft hyphen, use `\%', not \[shc].
> The file `latin1.tmac' does the same.
So it should make sense to align glyphuni.cpp to what all devices do.
I propose this patch.
2006-02-19 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* glyphuni.cpp (glyph_to_unicode_list): Comment out the entry for
\[shc].
diff -r -c3 groff-20060217.orig/src/libs/libgroff/glyphuni.cpp
groff-20060217/src/libs/libgroff/glyphuni.cpp
--- groff-20060217.orig/src/libs/libgroff/glyphuni.cpp 2006-02-15
12:55:49.000000000 +0100
+++ groff-20060217/src/libs/libgroff/glyphuni.cpp 2006-02-19
18:39:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -170,7 +170,9 @@
{ "Fo", "00AB" },
{ "no", "00AC" },
{ "tno", "00AC" },
- { "shc", "00AD" },
+// The glyph \[shc] is not useful for typographic purposes.
+// U+00AD is meaningful only in the input file, not in the output.
+//{ "shc", "00AD" },
{ "rg", "00AE" },
{ "a-", "00AF" },
{ "de", "00B0" },
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