Hello,
Just wanted to bring this to the attention of the list.
Neatroff - a C implementation of Troff.
Supports unicode, does paragraph level formatting instead of line by line
and also supports right-to-left text for languages that write in this
direction.
May be worth a look to see how some o
> Von: "Werner LEMBERG"
>
> If you want to create artificial glyphs using `.char' and friends for
> -Tps or -Tdvi, please create a separate macro package so that pinyin
> support can be loaded with `-mpinyin' or something similar.
That looks good, the tmac dir looks interesting.
>
> For more id
> Can these characters be made into new glyphs? `groff_char.7' is
> already quite good for unusual characters - and these are mostly
> available for `-Tutf8'. If someone could tell me, how to append new
> glyphs, I would try to implement this.
It's not clear to me what you mean with `append', p
> Von: "Ralph Corderoy"
>
> Bernd, I think you need to Google up `pinyin and unicode'.
Yes, good isea. There is a complete setting for all `pinyin' characters
in Unicode and has also many links to related web pages:
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/course_resources/s02/py-vowels.htm
There
> [...] it's the man program that tells the terminal to overstrike.
> I think.
The terminal (usually) doesn't overstrike. If you have
GROFF_NO_SGR set, then grotty outputs
and sequences, from which most
of today's terminals print only the last , so boldness
and underlines get lost. However, m
Hi Keith,
> > Both escapes are documented in Osanna/Kernioghan `CSTR 54' and many
> > other ancient `roff' documentations. So `nroff' should be able to
> > do that as well. Every typewriter could do such overstriking.
>
> But a video terminal is not a typewriter. Video terminals can display
>
On 05-Aug-2014 00:44:25 James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:19:41 +0100
> Keith Marshall wrote:
>
>> OTOH, when a typewriter overstrikes, the accumulation of all glyphs
>> struck remains indelibly impressed on the printed page.
>
> [OT]
>
> The symbol set of APL took advantage of th
