Dear All, currently I am working on a translation of a scientific article. So I prepared an mm source file, one paragraph original text, to be commented out once the translation of that paragraph is finished, then followed by the next paragraph, to be commented out and followed by translation, and so on.
So I started my text with .ig Lots of Chinese here .. .TL .AU ... No matter what I tried (.ig ... .., .ig end ... .end), the Chinese material spilled all over the head of the typeset page. What went wrong? At first I tried to find out whether the behaviour of .ig is different in the ms and mm macro packages: no difference. Then I had the idea to copy the Chinese material into a testbed file which I had prepared earlier. No problem either. The text file had been prepared by saving a Chinese word document as text, and during this process, the byte order mark +UFEFF had crept in /before/ the first dot. So the first line effectively was: <feff>.ig No wonder it did not work. Would it be meaningful to (optionally) tell groff to jump over or throw away BOMs it encounters at the beginning of a file? Or should sanity and awareness be left with the astute user? Best regards, Oliver. -- Dr. Oliver Corff mailto:oliver.co...@email.de
