Hi Ralph, thanks for your feedback!
Ralph Corderoy wrote on Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:33:09AM +0100: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> * The playing card symbols are maybe not top priority, but mandoc >> has them and its obvious enough what to print, so why not. >> +.tty-char \[CL] <club> >> +.tty-char \[SP] <spade> >> +.tty-char \[HE] <heart> >> +.tty-char \[DI] <diamond> > In the context of playing cards, single capital letters are used, `KC' > is king of clubs, `4D' is four of diamonds. If listing a hand using > `\(CL', etc., it should be approximated using single letters, not the > noisy `<club>', over and over. I used that suggestion in the commit; it seems you are right, these symbols are quite unlikely to be used when the context is unclear. >> * The rendering of Pound Sterling seems really bad to me. >> Nowadays, seeing a capital L, people will hardly think of the >> French word "Livre" and then understand "Pound Sterling". >> -.tty-char \[Po] \z-L >> +.tty-char \[Po] GBP > No, an English speaker, i.e. British, would think of `L. s. d', `pounds, > shillings, and pence'. The letters coming from librae, solidi, and > denarii. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A3sd > `\z-L' is correct here, and used on old typewriters too. Please don't > change it. I see, i removed that change from the patch before comitting. I will change it in mandoc instead, to match groff. >> We don't render the Euro sign as \z=C either... > Because it's a recent invention and someone just copied the ISO 4127. > Given Pound, `$', and Yen, are in ASCII `L', `$', and `Y', I think `E' > should be the approximation. That's the rendering for epsilon, which is > the inspiration for the Euro symbol; a nod to the Greeks, the `cradle > of Europe'. (The two horizontal lines reinforce the `stability' of the > currency, apparently.) And again, `E' gives a conformant single column > when mixing currencies. I seen it used for this reason elsewhere. Not sure about that one. I wouldn't understand 'E' to mean "Euro", and i guess that many other continental Europeans wouldn't either. Anyway, changing this wasn't part of the proposed patch in the first place. :-) >> (I think \z=Y for Yen is OK, Y is at least the right letter.) > And `Y' over `=' the common typewriter representation. >> So let's do the same for GBP as for EUR. > No, please don't. It's been a single character and changing that breaks > layout and again looks ugly when there's lots of them. Thanks for having a look, the uncontroversial parts are in, the playing card suits with your tweak. Yours, Ingo
