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Re: [Groff] gpinyin problems


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] gpinyin problems
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:07:42 +0200 (CEST)

>> . gpinyin inserts an empty line before the Pinyin text.  This is
>>   wrong.  It should simply continue the line.  Reason is missing
>>   `\' characters after `\{' in the `.ie' clauses.
>
> Ok, I fixed that already.

Thanks.

>>   . The syllable `lue3' (which looks like `lǚ') gets translated to
>>
>>       l\o'\s-2\[:u]\s0\[ah]'
>>
>>     I consider this ugly.  What's the reason for making the `ü'
>>     character smaller?  Please change this to move the tone mark
>>     higher, instead of reducing the size of the base character.
>
> You are right, it's not optimal, but it works.
>
> Within nroff, it's possible to use quite normal Unicode characters.
> But troff is very restricted for Unicode, so strange moving stuff is
> needed.  At the first usage, I was not able to move the accents far
> above the Umlaut, maybe later on.
>
> As it works, I leave it for now even with ugliness.

Indeed :-)  For such issues I suggest to open a bug report so that it
won't be forgotten...


    Werner

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