[looping in groff list, since bug-groff isn't really for discussion] Hi Pippo,
At 2022-08-26T12:07:17+0800, Pippo Carmona wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Since the Refer csl cannot be changed,
I'm not precisely sure what you mean by the "csl" here, but I think I
grasp the contours of your problem.
> I used the .ds macro to supply my footnotes and bibliography with the
> formatted entries that fit my specification. However, if the .ds
> macros are sourced from a separate file using .so, some characters are
> rendered incorrectly. For example, é becomes é. And when I set the
> macro in the same document, it is rendered correctly.
>
> I have used -k and preconv to try solve the issue, but it just doesn't
> work. Is there a workaround that I need to do, or is this a bug?
I think you are hitting a known limitation of preconv. Here is some
language from the version of the man page in groff Git.
[[
Limitations
preconv cannot perform any transformation on input that it cannot
see. Examples include files that are interpolated by
preprocessors that run subsequently, including soelim(1); files
included by troff itself through “so” and similar requests; and
string definitions passed to troff through its -d command‐line
option.
]]
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/src/preproc/preconv/preconv.1.man
There are multiple workarounds. Bjarni offered one.
At 2022-08-26T14:46:48+0000, bjarn...@vortex.is wrote:
> This looks like a case for bug #59442. a) Use the option '-V' for
> "groff" to see what the pipeline is b) Reconstruct it to put
> "soelim" first. Add the option '-e <encoding>' to the "preconv"
> command.
Another approach would be to convert the file you're sourcing to be
groff-friendly input on disk.
So instead of a UTF-8 encoded file like this:
.ds Gassee Jean-Louis Gassée\"
You might have:
.ds Gassee Jean-Louis Gass\['e]e\"
Some day I'd like to extend preconv(1) to accept options to produce
input that is more user-friendly and maintainable than the Unicode code
point escape sequences that it produces now, which look like this.
.ds Gassee Jean-Louis Gass\[u00C3]\[u00A9]e\"
You can read more about these issues in the groff_char(7) man page; I
recommend the version from groff Git; it has been considerably
expanded and clarified since the 1.22.4 release.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/man/groff_char.7.man
Regards,
Branden
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