> I'm not a Mac user so I don't know which you might prefer or what the tradeoffs are, but MacPorts has 1.22.3 and Homebrew has 1.22.4.
I recommend sticking with Homebrew instead of MacPorts. Homebrew is much more ergonomic/user-friendly, has clearer and more accessible documentation, and gets updates very, very frequently. MacPorts is pretty much the opposite in each regard. While I remember: if you want man(1) to use Homebrew's version of Groff, you'll need to edit /etc/man.conf — the paths in that file are hardcoded to use macOS's antique version of Groff. You can update /etc/man.conf to use UTF-8 output and Homebrew's Groff by running this in your terminal: sudo sed -i.bak -E '/^NROFF|^NEQN/ s/-Tascii/-Tutf8/; /^(J?[NT]ROFF|(J?N)?EQN|TBL|REFER|PIC)[[:blank:]]+/ s|/usr/bin/|/usr/local/bin/|' man.conf This is important because some of Groff's manpages won't display correctly in `man` because of the hardcoded ancient version. Cheers, On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 00:49, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 05:05:25AM +0000, jonathan ahumada wrote: > > I’m trying to get into groff with the hopes that I could print my own > > literary drafts. However, I write in spanish and have had problems > > with accented characters such as (á, é, ó , etc). I have been > > searching and apparently groff doesn’t support utf-8, which is the > > format my files are written in. I have seen some people use a > > `preconv`command or a `-k` flag to convert their files for utf-8 into > > latin1 within the groff command. > > Sort of; it preprocesses UTF-8 into ASCII plus \[uXXXX] escapes. Using > preprocessors to transform the input in various ways is a routine > practice in groff. > > On the phrasing in your last couple of sentences, I would rather say > that groff supports UTF-8, but only via preconv (which is part of > groff). > > > But the build I have on my Mac computer doesn’t seem to have this > > (version 1.19.2). > > Yeah, that is pretty prehistoric; groff 1.20 was released a full ten > years ago, and the current release is 1.22.4. I'd really recommend you > try upgrading. > > I'm not a Mac user so I don't know which you might prefer or what the > tradeoffs are, but MacPorts has 1.22.3 and Homebrew has 1.22.4. Perhaps > you might try installing a newer version of groff from one of those? > > > I know you can use escape sequences in order to tell the troff > > formatter to use certain characters, but modifying my files with a > > sort of tailored script to replace all my accents seems burdensome. > > You wouldn't actually modify your files, but just have the build script > you use to render them add the -k option. > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] > >
