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Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Jan 2002 08:37:27 +0100 (CET) |
> > Not \[<digraph>] but \[<xxx>] with <xxx> a string of any length.
> Yes, but I was referring to the digraphs used in postscript metrics
> files, e.g.:
>
> ha 606,740 2 0000 -- asciicircum
> ti 606,319 0 0001 -- asciitilde
> vS 498,927,13 2 0002 -- Scaron
> vZ 480,927 2 0003 -- Zcaron
> vs 388,764,13 2 0004 -- scaron
> vz 425,764 2 0005 -- zcaron
It is just a historic accidence that only digraphs are used. groff
font symbols can be of any length.
> I guess the expected way to call these 8bit chars is \(<digraph>,
> say \(vS, but \[vS] works equally well; perhaps this is an
> unexpected side-effect?
It is an intentional side-effect :-) I always use \[vS] to have
balanced delimiters.
Werner
- [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs, P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia, 2002/01/08
- RE: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyp, Ted Harding, 2002/01/08
- Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs, P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia, 2002/01/08
- Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/01/10
- Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs, P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia, 2002/01/11
- Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/01/11
- Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs, P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia, 2002/01/12
- Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyphs,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyp, Ted Harding, 2002/01/13
Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyp, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2002/01/09
Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyp, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/01/10
Re: [Groff] Bugs in mm, accents, multi-line macros and font glyp, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/01/10