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diff --git a/contrib/rfc1345/groff_rfc1345.7.man b/contrib/rfc1345/groff_rfc1345.7.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c04cad9 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/rfc1345/groff_rfc1345.7.man @@ -0,0 +1,265 @@ +.TH groff_rfc1345 @MAN7EXT@ "@MDATE@" "groff @VERSION@" +.SH Name +groff_rfc1345 \- special character names from RFC 1345 and Vim digraphs +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.\" Legal Terms +.\" ==================================================================== +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2021 Dorai Sitaram +.\" +.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person +.\" obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files +.\" (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, +.\" including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, +.\" publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, +.\" and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, +.\" subject to the following conditions: +.\" +.\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the +.\" next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial +.\" portions of the Software. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +.\" EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND +.\" NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN +.\" CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE +.\" SOFTWARE. +. +. +.\" Save and disable compatibility mode (for, e.g., Solaris 10/11). +.do nr *groff_groff_rfc1345_7_man_C \n[.cp] +.cp 0 +. +.\" Define fallback for groff 1.23's MR macro if the system lacks it. +.nr do-fallback 0 +.if !\n(.f .nr do-fallback 1 \" mandoc +.if \n(.g .if !d MR .nr do-fallback 1 \" older groff +.if !\n(.g .nr do-fallback 1 \" non-groff *roff +.if \n[do-fallback] \{\ +. de MR +. ie \\n(.$=1 \ +. I \%\\$1 +. el \ +. IR \%\\$1 (\\$2)\\$3 +. . +.\} +.rr do-fallback +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Description +.\" ==================================================================== +. +The file +.I rfc1345.tmac +defines special character escape sequences for +.MR groff @MAN7EXT@ +based on the glyph mnemonics specified in RFC 1345 and the digraph table +of the text editor Vim. +. +Each escape sequence translates to a Unicode code point, +and will render correctly if the underlying font is a Unicode font that +covers the code point. +. +. +.PP +For example, +.RB \[lq] \[rs][Rx] \[rq] +is the \[lq]recipe\[rq] or \[lq]prescription take\[rq] symbol, +and maps to the code point U+211E. +. +.I groff +lets you write it as +.RB \[lq] \[rs][u211E] \[rq], +but +.RB \[lq] \[rs][Rx] \[rq] +is more mnemonic. +. +. +.PP +For a list of the glyph names provided, +please see the file +.IR rfc1345.tmac , +which contains definitions of the form +. +.RS +.EX +\&.char \[rs][Rx] \[rs][u211E] \[rs]" PRESCRIPTION TAKE +.EE +.RE +. +where +.BR .char 's +first argument defines a +.I groff +special character escape sequence with a mnemonic glyph name, +its second argument is a special character escape sequence based on the +code point, +and the comment describes the glyph defined. +. +. +.PP +The RFC 1345 glyph names cover a wide range of Unicode code points, +including +supplemental Latin, +Greek, +Cyrillic, +Hebrew, +Arabic, +Hiragana, +Katakana, +and Bopomofo letters, +punctuation, +math notation, +currency +symbols, +industrial and entertainment icons, +and box-drawing symbols. +. +. +.PP +The Vim digraph table is practically a subset of RFC 1345 +(being limited to two-character mnemonics), +but, +as a newer implementation, +adds four mnemonics not specified in the RFC +(the horizontal ellipsis, +the Euro sign, +and two mappings for the rouble sign). +. +These have also been added to +.IR rfc1345.tmac . +. +. +.PP +.I rfc1345.tmac +contains a total of 1,696 glyph names. +. +It is not an +error to load +.I rfc1345.tmac +if your font does not have all the glyphs, +as long as it contains the glyphs that you actually use in your +document. +. +. +.PP +The RFC 1345 mnemonics are not identical in every case to the mappings +for special character glyph names that are built in to +.IR groff ; +for example, +.RB \[lq] \[rs][<<] \[rq] +means the \[lq]much less than\[rq] sign (U+226A) when +.I rfc1345.tmac +is not loaded and this special character is not otherwise defined by a +document or macro package. +. +.I rfc1345.tmac +redefines +.RB \[lq] \[rs][<<] \[rq] +to the \[lq]left-pointing double angle quotation mark\[rq] (U+00AB). +. +See +.MR groff_char @MAN7EXT@ +for the full list of predefined special character escape sequences. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SS Usage +.\" ==================================================================== +. +Load the +.I rfc1345.tmac +file. +. +This can be done by either adding +.RB \[lq] ".mso rfc1345.tmac" \[rq] +to your document before the first use of any of the glyph names the +macro file defines, +or by using the +.MR @g@troff @MAN1EXT@ +option +.RB \[lq] "\-m rfc1345" \[rq] +from the shell. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SS Bugs +.\" ==================================================================== +. +As the +.I groff +Texinfo manual notes, +\[lq][o]nly the current font is checked for ligatures and kerns; +neither special fonts nor entities defined with the +.B char +request +(and its siblings) +are taken into account.\[rq] +. +Many of the characters defined in +.I rfc1345.tmac +are accented Latin letters, +and will be affected by this deficiency, +.UR https://\:savannah\:.gnu\:.org/\:bugs/\:?59932 +producing subpar typography +.UE . +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Files +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.TP +.I @MACRODIR@/\:rfc1345\:.tmac +implements the character mappings. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Authors +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.I rfc1345\:.tmac +was contributed by +.MT ds26gte@\:yahoo\:.com +Dorai Sitaram +.ME . +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH "See also" +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.UR https://\:tools\:.ietf\:.org/\:html/\:rfc1345 +RFC 1345 +.UE , +by Keld Simonsen, +June 1992. +. +. +.PP +The Vim digraph table can be listed using the +.MR vim 1 +command +.RB \[lq] ":help \%digraph\-table" \[rq]. +. +. +.PP +.MR groff_char @MAN7EXT@ +. +. +.\" Restore compatibility mode (for, e.g., Solaris 10/11). +.cp \n[*groff_groff_rfc1345_7_man_C] +.do rr *groff_groff_rfc1345_7_man_C +. +. +.\" Local Variables: +.\" fill-column: 72 +.\" mode: nroff +.\" End: +.\" vim: set filetype=groff textwidth=72: |