On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:34:28 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 06:43 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > tbl I can live with. Unicode I cannot. > > In some contexts Unicode may be ok (non-English words) but not for > > line-drawing characters and not for special punctuation. > Well but you know, that tbl(1) won't work for your PDF/HTML rendering > either? At least it didn't when I checked it. True, it won't work for some renderers. That is unfortunate but I am willing to make some sacrifices I guess. man -l -Thtml md.4 > md.html creates some HTML and some png files which look readable in a browser, including the tables. > > Anyway... I guess there's no benefit in discussing over Unicode/tbl > here... :) > > > I've attached a new set of patches... the second replaces all the > unicode stuff with similar ASCII chars. > I'd suggest to merge both and not just the result of them, so we have > the fancy Unicode stuff in git as well, should we ever decide to upgrade > to post 1991 ;-) Thanks for being accommodating of my irrational preferences. > > > Hope that helps and you can merge them largely as is,... please tell me > whether or not (or whether other tweaks are needed)... so that I can > clean up that branch. I've merged all your patches together and made a few little modification of my own - nothing major. I changed the Makefile to use "man -l filename" as that seems to be the "right" thing to do, rather than "nroff -man". So tbl is handled correctly. I've added a separate patch with the biggest change I made which was to replace "Device" with "Dev" in the 5-device arrays so that that table fits in the width of a (standard, old fashioned, 72 column) page. > > Still have another branch with information you gave me back then, about > how reads and writes are done... I'll come up with that in another mail. Should I just pull your description-of-reads-and-writes branch (and impose my style requirements on it)? Thanks for your efforts and persistence!! NeilBrown
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