Changeset 5536f74 for chapter06/groff.xml

Timestamp:

12/26/2005 07:00:06 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Archaic <archaic@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

94aa6621

Parents:

2550494

Message:

Applied Alexander Patrakov's patch which adds UTF-8 capability to the
development branch of the LFS Book.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7235 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

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

chapter06/groff.xml

@@ -29 +29 @@
 <title>Installation of Groff</title>
 
+<para>Apply the patch that adds the "ascii8" and "nippon" 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. There is no working patch for
+Groff-1.19.x that adds this functionality at the time of this writing.
+<!-- Details: http://bugs.debian.org/196762 -->
+</para></note>
+
+<para>Many screen fonts don't have Unicode dashes in them. Tell groff to use
+the ASCII hyphen instead:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's,2010,002D,' font/devutf8/R.proto
+sed -i 's,2212,002D,' 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.
+The default paper size can be changed after installation by writing
+the word "A4" or "letter" to the <filename>/etc/papersize</filename>
+file.</para>
 
 <para>Prepare Groff for compilation:</para>