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Re: [Groff] accented characters in MAILTO requests
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] accented characters in MAILTO requests |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:34:18 GMT |
> troff wants to encode such characters by the tcommand 'tC:o` and of
> course the device specific 'special' character tcommand is encoded
> as:
>
> x X etc
>
> and we cannot nest tcommands -
> so I've had to alter troff to encode any named character
> as \(name\) within the x X command. This functionality
> is turned on from within the devhtml/DESC file which
> now contains:
>
> use_charnames_in_special
>
> So, hopefully, these changes will not break any other devices.
> I've also added a 'pass_filenames' line to the html DESC file
> as this will be used to pass the current filename from troff
> to the device driver - at a later date - to fix the image file
> name problem. I've altered grohtml to decode the named characters
> within the x X tcommand. Are these alterations acceptable?
> Hopefully it will allow the homepage to be constructed now :-)
Added to the repository, thanks! Please add these two new requests to
the groff_font.man file. Additionally, the 5th argument in font
device files should be documented there.
Werner