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From: Deri <deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk>
To: groff@gnu.org
Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Escaping hyphens ("real" minus signs in groff)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:27:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1730363.VJsQCkzT93@pip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210122035558.ny2u3ddel2mltrve@localhost.localdomain>

On Friday, 22 January 2021 03:56:00 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> The gap between aspiration and implementation.  I don't think the
> "copy-and-paste from PDF to terminal window" matter is completely sorted
> out yet.

Hi Branden,

I can't seem to make this not work. In my last email I explained how a default 
ucmap is installed in the pdfs produced by gropdf, so assuming the pdf viewer 
supports the pdf standard it should not require a change to the man macros you 
favour. I have tested using 'xpdf' as the viewer which pastes:-

- − fi	<== without ucmap
- - fi	<== with ucmap

Of course, if the pdf is produced by using grops and ghostscript the result 
will be the same as using gropdf with no ucmap, i.e. '-' and '\-' will be 
pasted as different characters.

Cheers 

Deri




  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-22 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-20 21:03 Escaping hyphens ("real" minus signs in groff) Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-21  6:12 ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-01-21 11:03   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-21 17:42     ` Deri
2021-01-22  8:08       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-22  3:56     ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-01-22 16:27       ` Deri [this message]
2021-01-22 17:02         ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-03-07  0:06       ` Alejandro Colomar

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