Re: BOM can ruin your happy groffing experience

2023-11-21 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi David, thank you for your insight! You are right, currently I do not need Chinese in the translation, it is all kept within .id .. blocks. However, there may always be a case that I'll have to quote single Chinese words or phrases in my translation. Best regards, Oliver. On 21/11/2023 17

Re: BOM can ruin your happy groffing experience

2023-11-21 Thread Dave Kemper
On 11/21/23, Oliver Corff wrote: > So the first line effectively was: > > .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?

BOM can ruin your happy groffing experience

2023-11-21 Thread Oliver Corff
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, an