Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references.

[John Gardner]

> The problem with this, is that it ignores all but english languages.

Shouldn't Groff have a more ergonomic alternative to `.tr` which is closer
to the POSIX utility of the same name?

.translate [A-Z] [a-z]


Being a Perl lover, I'd love nothing better than to have full-blown regex
support within Roff, but honestly, I think we could all agree
character-range support would be a welcome addition...

I'd actually assumed .tr had character range support all along... :-(

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 18:34, Pierre-Jean Fichet <
address@hidden> wrote:

>
> Hello alls,
>
> "G. Branden Robinson" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > +.ie \\$1 .tr aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ
> > +.el      .tr aabbccddeeffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz
>
> The problem with this, is that it ignores all but english languages.
> "élément", for instance, would become "éLéMENT", which is the ugliest
> thing you can get. And yes, there are man pages in french, and I believe,
> in a lot of other languages.
>
> Cheers,
> Pierre-Jean.
>
>