[Groff] Why does tty-char.tmac not represent meaning?

2017-06-20 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, consider the situation of a document author who strives to write a roff document with the simultaneous goals of having it render nicely when typeset (e.g., with -Tpdf) and having it render intelligibly when on a -Tascii terminal. For example, that is a usual set of goals when writing manual p

Re: [Groff] Why does tty-char.tmac not represent meaning?

2017-06-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> What would you think about changing the - admittedly venerable - > policy in this respect? About shifting the top priority onto making > the meaning unambiguous in -Tascii output, and only pick a similar > graphical shape if that does not endanger properly conveying the > meaning? I support th