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diff --git a/upstream/archlinux/man1/gpinyin.1 b/upstream/archlinux/man1/gpinyin.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ee7a5a17 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/archlinux/man1/gpinyin.1 @@ -0,0 +1,378 @@ +'\" t +.TH gpinyin 1 "13 September 2023" "groff 1.23.0" +.SH Name +gpinyin \- use Hanyu Pinyin Chinese in +.I groff +documents +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.\" Legal Terms +.\" ==================================================================== +.\" +.\" Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +.\" +.\" This file is part of gpinyin, which is part of groff, a free +.\" software project. +.\" +.\" You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU +.\" General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software +.\" Foundation. +.\" +.\" The license text is available in the internet at +.\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>. +. +. +.\" Save and disable compatibility mode (for, e.g., Solaris 10/11). +.do nr *groff_gpinyin_1_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 +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.\" Local definitions +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.\" Define a string for the TeX logo. +.ie t .ds TeX T\h'-.1667m'\v'.224m'E\v'-.224m'\h'-.125m'X +.el .ds TeX TeX +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Synopsis +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.SY gpinyin +.RI [ file\~ .\|.\|.] +.YS +. +. +.SY gpinyin +.B \-h +. +.SY gpinyin +.B \-\-help +.YS +. +.SY gpinyin +.B \-v +. +.SY gpinyin +.B \-\-version +.YS +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Description +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.I gpinyin +is a preprocessor for +.MR groff 1 +that facilitates use of Hanyu Pinyin in +.MR groff 7 +files. +. +Pinyin is a method for writing the Mandarin Chinese language with the +Latin alphabet. +. +Mandarin consists of more than four hundred base syllables, +each spoken with one of five different tones. +. +Changing the tone applied to the syllable generally alters the meaning +of the word it forms. +. +In Pinyin, +a syllable is written in the Latin alphabet and a numeric tone indicator +can be appended to each syllable. +. +. +.P +Each +.I input-file +is a file name or the character +.RB \[lq] \- \[rq] +to indicate that the standard input stream should be read. +. +As usual, +the argument +.RB \[lq] \-\- \[rq] +can be used in order to force interpretation of all remaining arguments +as file names, +even if an +.I input-file +argument begins with a +.RB \[lq] \- \[rq]. +. +.B \-h +and +.B \-\-help +display a usage message, +while +.B \-v +and +.B \-\-version +show version information; +all exit afterward. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SS "Pinyin sections" +.\" ==================================================================== +. +Pinyin sections in +.I groff +files are enclosed by two +.B .pinyin +requests with different arguments. +. +The starting request is +.RS +.EX +\&.pinyin start +.EE +.RE +or +.RS +.EX +\&.pinyin begin +.EE +.RE +and the ending request is +.RS +.EX +\&.pinyin stop +.EE +.RE +or +.RS +.EX +\&.pinyin end +.EE +.RE +\&. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SS Syllables +.\" ==================================================================== +. +In Pinyin, +each syllable is represented by one to six letters drawn from the +fifty-two upper- and lowercase letters of the Unicode basic Latin +character set, +plus the letter \[lq]U\[rq] with dieresis (umlaut) in both cases\[em]in +other words, +the members of the set \[lq][a\[en]zA\[en]Z\[:u]\[:U]]\[rq]. +. +. +.P +In +.I groff +input, +all basic Latin letters are written as themselves. +. +The \[lq]u with dieresis\[rq] can be written as +\[lq]\e[:u]\[rq] +in lowercase or +\[lq]\e[:U]\[rq] +in uppercase. +. +Within +.B .pinyin +sections, +.I gpinyin +supports the form +\[lq]ue\[rq] +for lowercase and the forms +\[lq]Ue\[rq] +and +\[lq]UE\[rq] +for uppercase. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SS Tones +.\" ==================================================================== +. +Each syllable has exactly one of five +.IR tones . +. +The fifth tone is not explicitly written at all, +but each of the first through fourth tones is indicated with a diacritic +above a specific vowel within the syllable. +. +. +.P +In a +.I gpinyin +source file, +these tones are written by adding a numeral in the range 0 to 5 after +the syllable. +. +The tone numbers 1 to 4 are transformed into accents above vowels in the +output. +. +The tone numbers 0 and 5 are synonymous. +. +. +.P +.nr gpinyin*do-table 0 +.if t .nr gpinyin*do-table 1 +.if n .if '\*[.T]'utf8' .nr gpinyin*do-table 1 +.\" XXX: One hack necessitates another; since our table is conditional, +.\" we need to save the input line counter. +.nr gpinyin*.c \n[.c] +.ie \n[gpinyin*do-table] \{\ +The tones are written as follows. +. +. +.P +.\" XXX: This is so gross. Why can't grops and gropdf figure this out? +.if t .ds a- \za\[a-] +.if n .ds a- \[a a-] +.if t .ds a< \za\[ah] +.if n .ds a< \[a ah] +.if t .ne 8 \" Try to keep the table on one page for printed output. +.TS +l l l l l. +Tone Description Diacritic Example Input Example Output +_ +first flat \[a-] ma1 m\*[a-] +second rising \[aa] ma2 m\[a aa] +third falling-rising \[ah] ma3 m\*[a<] +fourth falling \[ga] ma4 m\[a ga] +fifth neutral (none) ma0 ma +\^ \^ \^ ma5 \^ +.TE +.\} +.lf (\n[gpinyin*.c] + 25) \" XXX part 2: Restore input line counter. +.el \{\ +[The tone mark table is omitted from this rendering of the man page +because the selected output device \[lq]\*[.T]\[rq] lacks the character +repertoire to display it. +. +Try another output device.] +.\} +.rm a- +.rm a< +.rr gpinyin*do-table +. +. +.P +The neutral tone number can be omitted from a word-final syllable, +but not otherwise. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Authors +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.I gpinyin +was written by +.MT groff\-bernd\:.warken\-72@\:web\:.de +Bernd Warken +.ME . +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH "See also" +.\" ==================================================================== +. +Useful documents on the World Wide Web related to Pinyin include +.RS 4n +.UR http://\:www\:.foolsworkshop\:.com/\:ptou/\:index\:.html +.I Pinyin to Unicode +.UE , +. +.br +.UR http://\:www\:.mandarintools\:.com/ +.I On-line Chinese Tools \" sic: On-line +.UE , +. +.br +.\" XXX: Turning off adjustment like this is ugly; thanks to meter-long +.\" URLs we need an escape sequence that selectively disables adjustment +.\" at the end of a word. +.na +.UR http://\:www\:.pinyin\:.info/\:index\:.html +.I Pinyin.info: a guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in \ +romanization +.UE , +.ad \*[AD] +. +.br +.UR http://\:www\:.pinyin\:.info/\:rules/\:where.html +\[lq]Where do the tone marks go?\[rq] +.UE , +. +.br +.UR http://\:git\:.savannah\:.gnu\:.org/\:gitweb/\:\ +?p=cjk\:.git\:;a=blob_plain\:;f=doc/\:pinyin\:.txt\:;hb=HEAD +.I pinyin.txt +from the CJK macro package for \*[TeX] +.UE , +.br +.RS -4n +and +.RE +. +.br +.\" XXX: Same ugliness as before. +.na +.UR http://\:git\:.savannah\:.gnu\:.org/\:gitweb/\:\ +?p=cjk\:.git\:;a=blob_plain\:;f=texinput/\:pinyin\:.sty\:;hb=HEAD +.I pinyin.sty +from the CJK macro package for \*[TeX] +.UE . +.ad \*[AD] +. +.RE +. +. +.P +.MR groff 1 +and +.MR grog 1 +explain how to view +.I roff +documents. +. +. +.P +.MR groff 7 +and +.MR groff_char 7 +are comprehensive references covering the language elements of GNU +.I troff \" GNU +and the available glyph repertoire, +respectively. +. +. +.\" Clean up. +.rm TeX +. +.\" Restore compatibility mode (for, e.g., Solaris 10/11). +.cp \n[*groff_gpinyin_1_man_C] +.do rr *groff_gpinyin_1_man_C +. +. +.\" Local Variables: +.\" fill-column: 72 +.\" mode: nroff +.\" End: +.\" vim: set filetype=groff textwidth=72: |