Changeset 46a2e9c for chapter06/groff.xml

Timestamp:

01/06/2006 02:59:05 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@…>

Children:

e1ca33a

Parents:

1714f1a

Message:

Merged recent changes from trunk to lfs-alpha. Fixed typo.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/alphabetical/BOOK@7248 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/groff.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/groff.xml

@@ -29 +29 @@
 <title>Installation of Groff</title>
 
+<para>Apply the patch that adds the <quote>ascii8</quote> and
+<quote>nippon</quote> devices to Groff:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>zcat ../&groff-debian-patch; | patch -Np1</userinput></screen>
+
+<note><para>These devices are used by Man-DB when formatting non-English manual
+pages that are not in the ISO-8859-1 encoding. Currently, there is no working
+patch for Groff-1.19.x that adds this functionality.
+<!-- Details: http://bugs.debian.org/196762 -->
+</para></note>
+
+<para>Many screen fonts don't have Unicode single quotes and dashes in them.
+Tell Groff to use the ASCII equivalents instead:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i -e 's/2010/002D/' -e 's/2212/002D/' \
+    -e 's/2018/0060/' -e 's/2019/0027/' font/devutf8/R.proto
+</userinput></screen>
+
 <para>Groff expects the environment variable <envar>PAGE</envar>
 to contain the default paper size. For users in the United States,
 <parameter>PAGE=letter</parameter> is appropriate. Elsewhere,
-<parameter>PAGE=A4</parameter> may be more suitable.</para>
+<parameter>PAGE=A4</parameter> may be more suitable.
+While the default paper size is configured during compilation, it can be
+overridden later by echoing either <quote>A4</quote> or <quote>letter</quote>
+to the <filename>/etc/papersize</filename> file.</para>
 
 <para>Prepare Groff for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>PAGE=<replaceable>[paper_size]</replaceable> ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>PAGE=<replaceable>[paper_size]</replaceable> ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>Compile the package:</para>