Re: [Groff] Latin-2 woes...

[Lukasz Wiechec]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > > > Actually, I've got a problem with four: char177 (which should be
> > > > aogonek but displays as plusminus [+-]), char179 (lslash,
> > > > displaying as 3-superscript or power 3), char188 (zslash,
> > > > displays as 1/4 or onequarter) and char166 (Sslash, displaying
> > > > as vertical bar or '|').
> 
> This particular problem can be solved easily by saying
> 
>   groff <your macro package(s)> -mpsnew ...

Wow ! It did a trick. Thanks !!! Still, the best solutions are usual right
before your nose... but to err is human :-)

> Nevertheless, the general solution is to write a proper input encoding
> file to map Latin-2 to glyph names; something like
> 
>   .char Ł \[/L]
>   .char ł \[/l]
>   ...

I don't quite follow. '.char' isn't a groff macro, is it ? (4 letters ?)


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