Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch v2 16/26] Man page: render Andreas Gruenbachers name with a u-umlaut

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Jean,

The first piece of this patch is erroneous.  4-5 years ago I didn't
clearly understand the difference between "special" fonts and
non-special fonts in *roff.  Now I do.  The u-with-umlaut character is
"regular", or from a "text font", meaning it may have different styles
available (bold, oblique/italic, bold-italic), unlike, say, the square
root sign.

The correct groff request to define a fallback for a missing \[:u]
special character escape sequence is therefore.

.fchar \\[:u] ue

(For others reading, and posterity: normally, the backslash would not be
doubled, but quilt.1.in undergoes extra processing to produce quilt.1.)

I will add that, in my opinion, recent versions of the groff_char(7) man
page describe these matters much more clearly.[1]

Regards,
Branden

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/17ftu3z31couf07/AAC_9kq0ZA-Ra2ZhmZFWlLuva?dl=0

At 2022-07-26T14:43:24+0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> --- quilt.orig/doc/quilt.1.in 2022-07-06 09:47:39.094273219 +0200
> +++ quilt/doc/quilt.1.in      2022-07-06 10:27:42.523006977 +0200
> @@ -474,10 +474,11 @@ QUILT_COLORS='diff_hdr=35;44'
>  .EE
>  .
>  .SH AUTHORS
> +.schar \\[:u] ue
>  .I Quilt
>  started as a series of scripts written by Andrew Morton
>  .RI ( patch\\-scripts ).
> -Based on Andrew's ideas, Andreas Gruenbacher completely rewrote the
> +Based on Andrew's ideas, Andreas Gr\\[:u]nbacher completely rewrote the
>  scripts, with the help of several other contributors (see the file
>  .I AUTHORS
>  in the distribution).
>

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