Re: [groff] 06/17: tmac/{de,fr}.tmac: Respell string translations.

2024-11-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Dave, At 2024-11-03T19:59:07-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > The commit log > (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=f486938c5) > says: > > > Spell string translations using groff special character escape > > sequences instead of Latin-1 or Latin-9 code points; this way they > > wo

groff 1.24.0 readiness status, and release notes

2024-11-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, tl;dr: Please nominate items for the groff 1.24.0 release announcement! I'd like to soft-freeze[1] the groff "Core" code as Savannah puts it (meaning the [gnt]roff commands and the "libgroff" internal static library). I've achieved all of the goals (on a freshly shortened list) that I

Re: character translation, hyphenation, and adjustment (was: Do Latin-2-based hyphenation files work with Unicode?)

2024-11-14 Thread onf
Hi Branden, On Thu Nov 14, 2024 at 2:08 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [...] > > It's not so long ago I saw some mentions of support for > > the \[u_...] characters being added to some driver, > > You might be thinking of this: > > commit a6289c1508acf31dce73da2ffa9e7de102986298 > Author: G.

Re: groff 1.24.0 readiness status, and release notes

2024-11-14 Thread onf
On Thu Nov 14, 2024 at 11:12 PM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-11-14T21:15:32+0100, onf wrote: > > eqn > > --- > > > > * The "gifont" primitive replaces "gfont" as the means of configuring > >the global italic face in preprocessed equations. "gfont" remains > >recognized as a

Re: [groff] 06/17: tmac/{de,fr}.tmac: Respell string translations.

2024-11-14 Thread Dave Kemper
On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 11:11 AM G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I think this would break the part of the file that sets up the > hyphenation codes, which have to be 8-bit encoded given the current > state of the formatter. The only 8-bit characters in ru.tmac are on the ".ds \*[locale]" lines; the

Re: groff 1.24.0 readiness status, and release notes

2024-11-14 Thread onf
On Thu Nov 14, 2024 at 6:44 PM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi folks, > > tl;dr: Please nominate items for the groff 1.24.0 release announcement! > [...] eqn --- * The "gifont" primitive replaces "gfont" as the means of configuring the global italic face in preprocessed equations. "gfon

Re: groff 1.24.0 readiness status, and release notes

2024-11-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Thanks for the nominations, onf. At 2024-11-14T21:15:32+0100, onf wrote: > eqn > --- > > * The "gifont" primitive replaces "gfont" as the means of configuring >the global italic face in preprocessed equations. "gfont" remains >recognized as a synonym for backward compatibility. The new

Re: groff 1.24.0 readiness status, and release notes

2024-11-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up: surprise! I want to correct myself] At 2024-11-14T11:44:55-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > As with groff 1.23.0, I ask the readers of this list to nominate items > for the release announcement. I can't put the whole 1.24 section of > the NEWS file in--that would be too long.

Re: GNU chem maintenance

2024-11-14 Thread Marc Chantreux
hello, On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 01:30:37PM +0100, Norwid Behrnd wrote: > Dear Branden > > One the papers which cite the `chem` paper by Bentley, Jelinsky, Kernigham I > became aware of is "LITTLE LANGUAGES FOR PICTURES IN AWK" by Bentley. There > is a small section (around figure 7) about `chem`,

Re: GNU chem maintenance

2024-11-14 Thread Norwid Behrnd
Dear Branden One the papers which cite the `chem` paper by Bentley, Jelinsky, Kernigham I became aware of is "LITTLE LANGUAGES FOR PICTURES IN AWK" by Bentley. There is a small section (around figure 7) about `chem`, too -- mirrored/rescued for example in Arnold Robbin's public `dformat` reposito

Re: A list of chemical names

2024-11-14 Thread Oliver Corff via GNU roff typesetting system discussion
Dear Norwid, I am overwhelmed by your response to my Saturday afternoon roff exercise! Thank you for your copious feedback, also with regard mhchem, etc. I installed IQmol on my computer to explore the field a bit further. Besides that, there is quite a zoo of chemical notations! Of which I was b