Re: groff supports Italian input documents now

2021-07-03 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Branden, thank you so very much for your exhaustive answer! Now I understand much better that I actually did not miss too much with my approach. That makes me think if it is useful to develop a macro package for switching of language settings which covers the mentioned fields (inter-sentence

Re: groff supports Italian input documents now

2021-07-03 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 12:50:07PM +1000: [ autodetection ] > Important to note here--it doesn't. groff doesn't detect this--it has > to be told. Which is a good thing. Even when a document contains only a single language, detecting it automatically may no

Re: groff supports Italian input documents now

2021-07-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, Ingo! At 2021-07-03T16:01:34+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Branden, > [ a rare point of agreement snipped ;-) ] > > I revamped groff input localization a few months ago. It occurred > > to me that the mechanism groff had innovated for this purpose > > (specify options like -mfr for French)

Re: groff supports Italian input documents now

2021-07-03 Thread John Ankarström
Den 2021-07-03 kl. 04:50 skrev G. Branden Robinson: > It seems that the EU has standardized on "no additional > inter-sentence space" in its typography, so our Czech, German, > French, Italian, and Swedish localization files all say .ss 12 0 I've always wondered about this. Does anyone know to wha