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bug#69483: 29.2; "\fC" macro in ox-man.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#69483: 29.2; "\fC" macro in ox-man.el |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Mar 2024 09:04:11 +0200 |
> From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:21:26 -0800
>
>
> "mu4e"[1] (a popular Emacs mail client) uses Org to generate its
> manpages. However, the generated output contains macros that are not
> understood by groff. After some debugging, Jeremy traced this back to
> the macro "\fC" used in ox-man.el[2]. Git history shows that this may
> have been there since the beginning. We tried to find a documentation
> for the "\fC" macro but has not been able to find one. Jeremy suggests
> that "C" may be an old alias for Courier, and if that's the case it
> should be changed to "\f[CR]". Would be great if Org people can
> confirm.
>
> [1] https://github.com/djcb/mu
> [2] E.g.
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/org/ox-man.el#n362
> (Credit to Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>)
Thanks. I think this should be reported to the Org developers first,
as ox-man.el is developed and maintained by them.
- bug#69483: 29.2; "\fC" macro in ox-man.el,
Eli Zaretskii <=