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bug #50898: groff_char(7) manual: improve description of ASCII characters that do not render as themselves

Submitted by:  Ingo Schwarze <schwarze>
Submitted on:  Sat 29 Apr 2017 06:57:30 PM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: WishlistStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Carsten Kunze <carstenkunze>
Open/Closed: ClosedPlanned Release: None

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Sat 29 Apr 2017 06:57:30 PM UTC, original submission:

This patch improves the section "7-bit Character Codes 32126" in the groff_char(7) manual in five respects:

1. Add clarity by giving the Unicode numbers for each output glyph.

2. Add even more clarity by also giving the character names that can be used to explicitly request each specific glyph, rather than simply typing some ASCII character.

3. Correct the output glyph for the input "'". In a manual page, "'" does not render as a right single quotation mark (Unicode u2019), so we really need \[cq] here.

4. Add a sentence explaining that in typography, the right single quotation mark is usually used to represent the punctation apostrophe as well, to avoid misleading people into writing "don\(aqt".

5. Recommend \(mi if people explicitly want a minus sign rather than \-, because in some macro sets, \- may render as an ASCII hyphen-minus and not as a minus sign.

Ingo Schwarze <schwarze>

 

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file #40534:  groff_char.patch added by schwarze (2KiB - text/x-patch)

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Sat 29 Apr 2017 07:19:56 PM UTCcarstenkunzeStatusNone=>Fixed
      Assigned toNone=>carstenkunze
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Sat 29 Apr 2017 06:57:30 PM UTCschwarzeAttached File-=>Added groff_char.patch, #40534

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