Hello Bjarni,
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
<bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:07:50AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hello Bjarni,
>>
>> Late follow-up...
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
>> <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:01:04AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
>> >> <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > [removed text]
>> >>
>> >> Any further update to that last sentence of yours? Is man-pages able
>> >> to use that patch you sent?
>> >>
>> > I have done nothing in this case, and I suppose that will wait
>> > until autumn or winter.
>> >
>> > A better solution is to simplify the footnote:
>> >
>> > See groff_char(7) (soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 (shy)
>> > or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
>>
>> So, I applied the patch below. Okay?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> --- a/man7/iso_8859-1.7
>> +++ b/man7/iso_8859-1.7
>> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ manual page.
>> The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
>> in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
>> .TS
>> -l l l c lp-1.
>> +l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
>> Oct Dec Hex Char Description
>> _
>> 240 160 A0 <A0> NO-BREAK SPACE
>> @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ _
>> 252 170 AA <AA> FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
>> 253 171 AB <AB> LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
>> 254 172 AC <AC> NOT SIGN
>> -255 173 AD - SOFT HYPHEN
>> +255 173 AD <AD> SOFT HYPHEN (shown as a hyphen at line
>> breaks) [1]
>> 256 174 AE <AE> REGISTERED SIGN
>> 257 175 AF <AF> MACRON
>> 260 176 B0 <B0> DEGREE SIGN
>> @@ -171,6 +171,14 @@ _
>> 376 254 FE <FE> LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
>> 377 255 FF <FF> LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
>> .TE
>> +.IP [1] 4
>> +See
>> +.BR groff_char (7)
>> +(soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 ("shy",
>> +paragraph 6.3.3)
>> +or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
>> +.BR "ISO 8859-1:1987" ,
>> +paragraph 6.3.3.
>> .SH "SEE ALSO"
>> .BR ascii (7),
>> .BR iso_8859-15 (7)
>>
> O.K., but
> 1) drop
>
> +.BR "ISO 8859-1:1987" ,
> +paragraph 6.3.3.
Thanks, done.
> The year (1987) is for an older version; paragraph is repeated
> from a previous line. If you want the name of the standard
> boldfaced, do it with the first mention of it in the change.
>
> 2) The column for "Char" should show the graphic character (glyph)
> for the code, and not repeap column 3 (with extra < >)
I don't understand this comment. Could you say some more.
> 3) There are no tabs in the table! Have been changed to spaces!
Ahh -- sorry, that was because I did a GUI cut+paste into my mail. The
tabs still exist in the source file.
Cheers,
Michael
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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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