Re: [Groff] man file character encoding.

2013-09-26 Thread Federico Lucifredi
On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote: >> Assuming that the problem is caused by `-p', a possible solution is to >> not use this man option or environment variable and add option `-t' to >> nroff in `/etc/man.conf'. > > Or use man-db instead, which is much smarter about character enco

Re: [Groff] man file character encoding.

2013-09-26 Thread Federico Lucifredi
I will look at this during the weekend and get back to you. It should not be difficult with Werner's comments. When you first raised this, you were ahead of the curve. Fixing it then was harder than it is today... Time to get it done. Best-F Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 26, 2013, at 3:43 PM,

Re: [Groff] man file character encoding.

2013-09-26 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Sorry guys, traveling till Sunday. Will comment then. Best-F Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 26, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> My conclusion is that the coding tag in the man page is not working, >> even when you disable all preprocessors and the coding tag gets to >> the secon

Re: [Groff] man file character encoding.

2013-09-26 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Colin Watson schreef, Op 26-9-2013 10:32: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:50:38AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Hello Erwin! How can this be fixed? Assuming that the problem is caused by `-p', a possible solution is to not use this man option or environment variable and add option `-t' to nroff in `

Re: [Groff] man file character encoding.

2013-09-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> My conclusion is that the coding tag in the man page is not working, > even when you disable all preprocessors and the coding tag gets to > the second line. Disabling all preprocessors is probably not what > you want. The only way out, with the use of Federico's man and > preconv, is to convert

Re: [Groff] man file character encoding.

2013-09-26 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Werner LEMBERG schreef, Op 26-9-2013 6:50: > > Hello Erwin! Hi, > > Please send such questions to the groff mailing list (which I've now > CCed). Thanks. > >> This was my problem: >> >> I set a French locale fr_FR.UTF-8, and have a Latin-1 formatted man >> page (vim.1). The problem was that

Re: [Groff] man file character encoding.

2013-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:50:38AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Hello Erwin! > > How can this be fixed? > > Assuming that the problem is caused by `-p', a possible solution is to > not use this man option or environment variable and add option `-t' to > nroff in `/etc/man.conf'. Or use man-db i

Re: [Groff] Rotate text in pic

2013-09-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Sep-2013 04:20:44 Volker Wolfram wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a technical drawing macro in pic on OpenBSD 5.3 > and like to have a value on an arrow line. To get a horizontal > text is easy, but a vertical text is hard. Can you help me? > Here is my code for a horizontal output where