Werner LEMBERG: > Yes, this is a mess, introduced long before I was > involved in groff. However, this affects the ter- > minology but not the documentation itself. AFAIK, > I've fixed all places in the doc files to make a > clear distinction between input characters and > output glyphs.
Now that I have acquired more understanding, I don't have problems reading the manual. But I had had a hard time before! > > As I now understand, there's no internal repre- > > sentation of characters in groff. There are only > > input characters and output entities. > > Actually, it's the same object, containing a ref- > erence to both the input character and the corre- > sponding output glyph. OK, but the reference to the input character is allowed to be 'null', then? > This is not the example I have expected. In other > words, you don't have one, which is good :-) Good indeed! But I also provided another example -- the one that disables hyphenation at a certain letter -- and it seems to be a bug or, at least, this behaviour or side effect is neither evident nor documented. Anton
