Re: [Groff] FW: the groff blues -- kinda

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The following was just posted to address@hidden
> 
> I don't recall seeing this problem come up on the groff list,
> and I don't get it myself with groff 1.16.1. Does anyone know
> anything about it?

It was on the list for a longer time, but I can't remember exactly
what the problem was.  But it is fixed anyway...


    Werner

>  o the groff*-1.16.1-7 with Red Hat 7.1 is broken
>    with at least any language requiring two
>    adjacent letters of a-umlaut and o-umlaut.
> 
>    Words like "kääntyä" ("to turn" or "to compile" in 
>    finnish) generate errors and drop letters from
>    output. Didn't find a way around it with using
>    macros or string replacement .ds
> 
>  o the current GNU release 1.17.2 does not suffer
>    from the problem.