Re: [Groff] Why is man better than groff for tty output of groff_char.man?

[Bernd Warken]

> Von: "Ralph Corderoy" <address@hidden>
> 
> > The groff man-page groff_char.man has many unusual characters. With
> >   $ man -l groff_char.man
> > or
> >   $ nroff -man -t groff_char.man
> > I can read almost all of these characters, while other groff programs
> > like -Tlatin1 do not work.
> 
> Don't quite understand the problem.  Do you expect a latin1 presentation
> to show characters outside the 256-maximum possible?
> 
> I'm UTF-8 here;  doing
> 
>     diff <(nroff -man -t groff_char.man) \
>         <(nroff -man -t -Tlatin1 groff_char.man | iconv -f latin1)
> 
> shows differences with the end-of-line hyphens, which is fine, and also
> character like
> 
>     318,322c318,322
>     <        Π      \[OE]  OE           u0152
>     <        œ       \[oe]  oe           u0153
>     <        IJ       \[IJ]  IJ           u0132            (Dutch)
>     <        ij       \[ij]  ij           u0133            (Dutch)
>     <        ı       \[.i]  dotlessi     u0131            (Turkish)
>     ---
>     >        OE      \[OE]  OE           u0152
>     >        oe      \[oe]  oe           u0153
>     >        IJ      \[IJ]  IJ           u0132            (Dutch)
>     >        ij      \[ij]  ij           u0133            (Dutch)
>     >        i       \[.i]  dotlessi     u0131            (Turkish)
>     328c328
>     <        Ć       \['C]  Cacute       u0043_0301
>     ---
>     >        (N/A)   \['C]  Cacute       u0043_0301
> 
> Seems a perfectly reasonable presentation to me?

My diffs became very different from that, but anyway.

It is strange that we have so many useful characters with `nroff',
but not with `groff -Tlatin1', etc.

Would it make sense, to add `groff -n' for running `nroff' in text mode
instead of strange `groff' commands - also maybe change `grog'.

Bernd Warken