On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > It's g-roff, just as ed(1) is e-d. History and culture are important so > it's worth persisting and educating gently in the background, > e.g. groff(1) should start > > This document describes the groff program, pronounced ‘gee-roff’, ...
+1 It's the perfect solution. > > Second question, maybe not so trivial. Is it acceptable to use a > > comma for decimal fractions that are arguments to requests and macros > > (say .ps 12,5 instead of .ps 12.5) if a user's locale supports it? > > No, because: troff's input is more code than data; and allowing it > removes an option for future expansion. This is what I assumed. I asked because a document in Spanish I was reviewing used comma-separated decimal values for the dimensions of a pdf image. The decimal was sufficiently small that I couldn't discern visually whether it was being respected. I expected groff to barf if the input were invalid, but it didn't. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
