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authorArchaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-12-26 19:46:12 +0000
committerArchaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-12-26 19:46:12 +0000
commit94aa662138576c22deef1642b3b2b302ad075a82 (patch)
tree38766a292ed556718529449133b71b25138df9b8 /chapter06/groff.xml
parent5536f7440f2f4a12782e8d741cbbba5f1c3cfea8 (diff)
Reverting UTF-8 changes until everything is in place.
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@@ -28,29 +28,10 @@ Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Groff</title>
-<para>Apply the patch that adds the "ascii8" and "nippon" devices to Groff:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>zcat ../&groff-debian-patch; | patch -Np1</userinput></screen>
-
-<note><para>These devices are used by Man-DB when formatting non-English manual
-pages that are not in the ISO-8859-1 encoding. There is no working patch for
-Groff-1.19.x that adds this functionality at the time of this writing.
-<!-- Details: http://bugs.debian.org/196762 -->
-</para></note>
-
-<para>Many screen fonts don't have Unicode dashes in them. Tell groff to use
-the ASCII hyphen instead:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>sed -i 's,2010,002D,' font/devutf8/R.proto
-sed -i 's,2212,002D,' font/devutf8/R.proto</userinput></screen>
-
<para>Groff expects the environment variable <envar>PAGE</envar>
to contain the default paper size. For users in the United States,
<parameter>PAGE=letter</parameter> is appropriate. Elsewhere,
-<parameter>PAGE=A4</parameter> may be more suitable.
-The default paper size can be changed after installation by writing
-the word "A4" or "letter" to the <filename>/etc/papersize</filename>
-file.</para>
+<parameter>PAGE=A4</parameter> may be more suitable.</para>
<para>Prepare Groff for compilation:</para>