Changeset 9afdb62 for chapter06/groff.xml

Timestamp:

02/01/2009 10:45:10 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

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Children:

b4f8278

Parents:

109230d

Message:

Upgrade to Groff-1.20.1. Fixes #2322.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8790 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

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

chapter06/groff.xml

@@ -42 +42 @@
     <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 remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&groff-debian-patch;</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.</para>
-      <!-- Details: http://bugs.debian.org/196762 -->
-    </note>
-
-    <para>Many screen fonts don't have Unicode single quotes and dashes in them.
+    <!-- It looks like many screen fonts still don't have Unicode single quotes
+    and dashes in them, but the sed below no longer makes any changes as the
+    format has changed in Groff-1.20.1 -->
+
+<!--    <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 remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/2010/002D/' -e 's/2212/002D/' \
-    -e 's/2018/0060/' -e 's/2019/0027/' font/devutf8/R.proto</userinput></screen>
+    -e 's/2018/0060/' -e 's/2019/0027/' font/devutf8/R.proto</userinput></screen> -->
 
     <para>Groff expects the environment variable <envar>PAGE</envar> to