At 2019-11-04T08:08:57+0100, Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) wrote: > Dear list,
Hi Xianwen!
> Today is my second day trying out groff.
Welcome aboard!
> I have over a decade experiences with LaTeX and a few years
> experiences with markdown.
If you're familiar with basic concepts of typesetting you should adapt
to groff pretty easily.
> I have two questions.
>
> First question is on Norwegian characters: ø, å, and æ. It seems that
> I cannot type them as plain text, because the produced PDF file gives
> funny output.
The short answer is that you need to pass groff (or troff, or nroff) the
"-k" flag to have the "preconv" command operate on the input.
> Second question is on the space when switching typefaces.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> (See for example,
> I. ABC
> )
You're getting a space here because groff normally interprets every line
break as a word break.
There are a couple of ways around that but first I think we need some
clarification on what you're trying to do.
Are you trying to set "ABC" in italics using a macro package like man or
ms? If so, you want ".I", not "I.".
In *roff languages, a line beginning with a dot (".") indicates a
request or a macro call. Dots are not otherwise special (except for
end-of-sentence detection).
> Now, this will produce a space between ABC and ). Is there some way
> that I can get rid of the space there?
Definitely. In the man macro package for man pages, you'd do this:
(See, for example,
.IR ABC ).
The groff_man(7) man page has more on this.
I've attached a document that renders fine for me with Norwegian
characters (and without using character escapes for that purpose). It
contains instructions for using itself embedded within.
Regards,
Branden
norvig.roff
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