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diff --git a/chapter06/groff.xml b/chapter06/groff.xml index a2507f45b..0c52ab5d0 100644 --- a/chapter06/groff.xml +++ b/chapter06/groff.xml @@ -41,23 +41,15 @@ <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Groff</title> - <para>Apply the patch that adds the <quote>ascii8</quote> and - <quote>nippon</quote> devices to Groff:</para> + <!-- It looks like many screen fonts still don't have Unicode single quotes + and dashes in them, but the sed below no longer makes any changes as the + format has changed in Groff-1.20.1 --> -<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&groff-debian-patch;</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. Currently, there is no - working patch for Groff-1.19.x that adds this functionality.</para> - <!-- Details: http://bugs.debian.org/196762 --> - </note> - - <para>Many screen fonts don't have Unicode single quotes and dashes in them. +<!-- <para>Many screen fonts don't have Unicode single quotes and dashes in them. Tell Groff to use the ASCII equivalents instead:</para> <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/2010/002D/' -e 's/2212/002D/' \ - -e 's/2018/0060/' -e 's/2019/0027/' font/devutf8/R.proto</userinput></screen> + -e 's/2018/0060/' -e 's/2019/0027/' 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, |