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| author | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2017-04-30 01:40:20 -0400 |
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| committer | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2017-04-30 01:40:20 -0400 |
| commit | 60257643bbc79561e15e31c69d385b9d6690e847 (patch) | |
| tree | f21a6a6e17a83e1ff12d7052fe3d026d6d2379ed | |
| parent | bd5440036c1d0775a5862a167028406cb592ee75 (diff) | |
| parent | 3e9bfff922e540641e318eaf94994db720060cd4 (diff) | |
| download | groff-git-branden.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'master' into brandenbranden
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/groff_char.7.man | 31 |
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +2017-04-29 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> + + groff_char(7): improve description of ASCII characters + + * man/groff_char.7.man: improve description of ASCII + characters that do not render as themselves + + See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50898 + 2017-04-28 Osamu Sayama lkbib with empty file dumps core diff --git a/man/groff_char.7.man b/man/groff_char.7.man index 1869f951b..e38c70b94 100644 --- a/man/groff_char.7.man +++ b/man/groff_char.7.man @@ -254,35 +254,46 @@ themselves; the only exceptions are the following characters: .TP .B \` the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Grave Accent\[cq] (code\ 96) prints as \[oq], a -left single quotation mark; the original character can be obtained -with \[oq]\f(CW\e`\fP\[cq]. +left single quotation mark (Unicode u2018). +The same output glyph can be requested explicitly +with \[oq]\f(CW\e(oq\fP\[cq]. +The original character can be obtained +with \[oq]\f(CW\e`\fP\[cq] (Unicode u0060). . . .TP .B \*(aq -the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Apostrophe\[cq] (code\ 39) prints as ', a right -single quotation mark; the original character can be obtained with -\[oq]\f(CW\e(aq\fP\[cq]. +the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Apostrophe\[cq] (code\ 39) prints as \[cq], +a right single quotation mark (Unicode u2019). +The same output glyph is commonly used in typography to represent +a punctation apostrophe, for example in contractions. +It can be requested explicitly with \[oq]\f(CW\e(cq\fP\[cq]. +The original character can be obtained with +\[oq]\f(CW\e(aq\fP\[cq] (Unicode u0027). . . .TP .B - the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Hyphen, Minus Sign\[cq] (code\ 45) prints as a -hyphen; a minus sign can be obtained with \[oq]\f(CW\e-\fP\[cq]. +hyphen (Unicode u2010). +The same output glyph can be requested explicitly +with \[oq]\f(CW\e(hy\fP\[cq]. +A minus sign can be obtained with \[oq]\f(CW\e(mi\fP\[cq] (Unicode u2212). . . .TP .B ~ the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Tilde\[cq] (code\ 126) is reduced in size to be -usable as a diacritic; a larger glyph can be obtained with -\[oq]\f(CW\e(ti\fP\[cq]. +usable as a diacritic (Unicode u02DC). +A larger glyph can be obtained with +\[oq]\f(CW\e(ti\fP\[cq] (Unicode u007E). . . .TP .B ^ the ISO \%latin1 \[oq]Circumflex Accent\[cq] (code\ 94) is reduced in -size to be usable as a diacritic; a larger glyph can be obtained with -\[oq]\f(CW\e(ha\fP\[cq]. +size to be usable as a diacritic (Unicode u02C6); a larger glyph +can be obtained with \[oq]\f(CW\e(ha\fP\[cq] (Unicode u005E). . . .P |