Hello Nicolas, On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:08:11PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:04:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:57:18PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 06:21:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Fine. But - please ignore my complete groff ignorance here, I tend to > > write documents in higher level languages (docbook, latex, ..) > > usually - at some stage some i18n will be required, see also my next > > point. Do you think a wishlist bug would help? I see many languages, > > with different quote conventions, different other typographic > > conventions, different hyphenation tables/rules (see below). But this is > > of course *way beyond* this bug report, so please ignore my rambling or > > direct me to the proper place :-)) > > I will think about filling a bug report. > > --quotes does not work for the French quotes ;( > (so I used a sed script) > > A --lang could be much better and could define both the quoting style and > hyphenation (see below).
Yes, a --lang option would be great. If you need supporters in case
you file the bug, don't hesitate to ask.
> I don't know exactly the details about hyphenation in groff (except that
> it's similar to TeX).
Well, at least in LaTeX tons of hyphenation rules exists, at least for
latin based languages, and at least for German I did not have a reason
to complain yet.
> The default hyphenation rules are defined in:
> /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/tmac/hyphen.us
>
> The next groff releases also include an hyphen.fr and hyphen.de
Good to read. Do you by chance know where I can monitor this (e.g. a
bug report somewhere)?
> Ideally, a --lang option to pod2man would also include the correct
> hyphenation rules.
>
> If the current German page is hardly readable, I can also disable the
> hyphenation.
> (You can see the result by adding a '.nh' line to the man page, after the
> line starting by '.TH')
No, the incorrect hyphenation "just" slows down reading once in a
while, because sometimes incorrect hyphenate words have to be parsed
twice to regain their meaning. But I do not think disabling is
necessary. If I (our you) should receive negative feedback on this
(highly unlikly, I believe) we might reconsider, but I'd rather wait a
little to get hyphen.de.
Thanks!
Greetings
Helge
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