Re: [Groff] Re: groff: radical re-implementation

2000-10-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > This is not true. Encoding does *not* imply the character set. > > You are talking about charset/encoding tags. > > Hmm, I cannot understand your idea... > > I intend to mean > - character set: CCS (Coded Character Set) in RFC 2130 > - encoding: CES (Character Encoding Scheme) in RFC 2130

Re: [Groff] Re: groff: radical re-implementation

2000-10-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
(B> > The same exists for Japanese and Chinese, especially for vertical (B> > writing. (B> (B> I think *ideograms* have fixed width everywhere. (B (BWell, maybe. But sometimes there is kerning. Please consult Ken (BLunde's `CJKV Information Processing' for details. Example: (B (B $

Re: [Groff] Re: groff: radical re-implementation

2000-10-20 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:45:51 +0200 (CEST), Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all: We both mean the same, and we agree how to handle the > problem in groff. I'm only arguing about technical terms. > > Another try. > > Consider a PostScript font with its encoding vector.

Re: [Groff] Re: groff: radical re-implementation

2000-10-20 Thread T. Kurt Bond
Werner LEMBERG writes: > The `-a' option is almost useless today IMHO. It will show a tty > approximation of the typeset output: > > groff -a -man -Tdvi troff.man | less > > It is *not* the right way to quickly select an ASCII device. To > override the used macros for the output character set

Re: [Groff] Re: groff: radical re-implementation

2000-10-20 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Oct-00 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Well, I insist that GNU troff doesn't support multi-byte encodings at > all :-) troff itself should work on a glyph basis only. It has to > work with *glyph names*, be it CJK entities or whatever. Currently, > the conversion from input encoding to glyph entiti