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Article #195Re^2: What features would you like in GNU troff?
From: Keld J|rn Simonsen
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1989 19:17
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1989 19:17
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Something I would like to see in a GNU troff was support for 8-bit character sets like LATIN-1 and LATIN-2, with additional support for people only having 7-bit (ASCII) equipment using the full character sets. This would be very useful in Europe, Canada, Mexico and South America and other places where European languages other than English is used. Part of this is to provide standard names for 8-bit characters, and Brian Kernighan of AT&T Bell Laboratories is maintaining a list of these character names. I have been collaborating on the formation of this list, and I can send you an article on this. Another thing I would personallly favor is a combined nroff/troff product, so you can use troff on any printer, regardless how dumb it is.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!dkuug!freja!keld From: keld@freja.diku.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re^2: What features would you like in GNU troff? Keywords: troff font families SoftQuad Message-ID: <4771@freja.diku.dk> Date: 27 Jun 89 19:17:39 GMT References: <779@pcrat.UUCP> <355@wjh12.harvard.edu> <8388@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3236@gos.ukc.ac.uk> <166@unmvax.unm.edu> <1989Jun23.190228.12731@sq.sq.com> Distribution: comp Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK Lines: 16