> grodvi invoked by man -Tdvi replaces all occurrences of dollar
> character ($) by pound sterling character (£).
Indeed.
> .TH test 1
> .BI "perl example: " "$str =~ m/^[a-z]$/;"
This example tries to use `$' within bold italic. However, the TeX CM
font `cmbi10' doesn't provide this character
Hi!
When formatting source code examples for manpage I found following
obscure bug. grodvi invoked by man -Tdvi replaces all occurrences of
dollar character ($) by pound sterling character (£). As $ is used in
more languages for accessing variable it is really a problem if is
replaced by £.
To de
On Sat 26 May 2018 13:16:42 Pali Rohár wrote:
> And as I said "man -T dvi | dvipdfmx"
> gives me better PDF output as man -Tpdf. So for reading I would really
> prefer man -Tdvi
Hi Pali,
Have you tried passing -P-e on the command line when using -T pdf? One
difference is that dvipdfmx always emb
Hi Pali,
Pali Rohar wrote on Mon, May 28, 2018 at 04:28:51PM +0200:
> On Sunday 27 May 2018 21:58:07 Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>>> So usage of mathematical minus sign (\-) is recommended as 0x2D
>>> character for describing command line options in manpage?
>> Unfortunately, ye
On Sunday 27 May 2018 21:58:07 Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > So usage of mathematical minus sign (\-) is recommended as 0x2D
> > character for describing command line options in manpage?
>
> Unfortunately, yes, that is the consensus regarding best practice,
> for want of a better alternative.
Ok, and
On Monday 28 May 2018 10:08:05 Mike Bianchi wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 03:24:05PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Monday 28 May 2018 15:16:53 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > On Monday 28 May 2018 02:48:09 Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > > > Pali Rohar wrote on Sun, May 27, 2018 at 11:52:44PM +0200:
> > > >
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 03:24:05PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Monday 28 May 2018 15:16:53 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Monday 28 May 2018 02:48:09 Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > > Pali Rohar wrote on Sun, May 27, 2018 at 11:52:44PM +0200:
> > > :
> > > PS name TR# Unicode
> > > --- ---
On Monday 28 May 2018 15:16:53 Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Monday 28 May 2018 02:48:09 Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > Hi Pali,
> >
> > Pali Rohar wrote on Sun, May 27, 2018 at 11:52:44PM +0200:
> >
> > > Now I looked deeply at man -Tps output and basically \- sequence is
> > > written as character 0xAD (\25
On Monday 28 May 2018 02:48:09 Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Pali,
>
> Pali Rohar wrote on Sun, May 27, 2018 at 11:52:44PM +0200:
>
> > Now I looked deeply at man -Tps output and basically \- sequence is
> > written as character 0xAD (\255 in octet) into output postscript file.
> > Therefore it is SO
Hi! I will look at PS and react later, for now just DVI part:
On Monday 28 May 2018 02:48:09 Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > I looked deeply at DVI output and basically \- is printed in DVI as
> > glyph with index 0 from font cmsy10. Looking at cmsy10.pfb Type1 font
> > file and there is "dup 0 /minus pu
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