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Re: Bug#196762: [Groff] Groff Version in Debian and [K]ubuntu


From: brian m. carlson
Subject: Re: Bug#196762: [Groff] Groff Version in Debian and [K]ubuntu
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:40:04 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01)

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:13:43PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
[adding kinsoku shori handling]

I would be overjoyed if somebody got us out from between the rock and
the hard place. CVS would be fine.

Excellent.  I'll start work today.

Basically the top-level goal is that man(1) keeps on working at least as
well as before in Japanese locales. (I think Chinese sort of works at
the moment, but probably not perfectly.) If that's taken care of, I'm
really not too bothered about how! I am fed up with being stuck at an
old version of groff.

If you could get some testcases posted to the bug (and CC'd to me), then I'll make sure that those work. Maybe Ukai-san has a few documents up his sleeve.

I was under the impression that groff needed glyph classes in order to
implement kinsoku shori.

That's one way to do it, I'm sure. I was planning on abusing the hyphenation and filling code, but I could always implement glyph classes instead. I'll probably implement the glyph classes, since that needs to be done anyway, and it is the Right Way to do it.

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