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
next prev parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1730363.VJsQCkzT93@pip \
--to=deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk \
--cc=g.branden.robinson@gmail.com \
--cc=groff@gnu.org \
--cc=linux-man@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mtk.manpages@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox