Re: No 6.05/.01 pdf book available

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On 2023-08-14 19:37, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> 
>> Another change which would need to be accepted is 
>> to allow a fourth parameter to .MR which is the destination name. Normally the 
>> name of the destination is derived from the first two parameters concatenated 
>> with "_", but if the name part of the .MR call to the man page includes non-
>> ascii characters (such as ".MR my\-lovely\-page 7 ,") then it needs to provide 
>> a "clean" destination name.

I just re-read this, and am confused.  '\-' is an ASCII character, isn't it?
In fact, all of the Linux man-pages pathnames are composed exclusively of ASCII
characters, aren't they?

> 
> Is this really needed?  Can't gropdf just translate them internally?  Say, do
> unconditionally the equivalent of `| tr - _ |` or something like that.
> 
> [...]

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