Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2012-08-14

Re: [patch], iso_8859-*.7: Explanation of SOFT HYPHEN and the code for it

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-13 22:07:50

Hello Bjarni,

Late follow-up...

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
[off-list ref] wrote:
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:01:04AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
quoted
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
[off-list ref] wrote:
[removed text]
quoted
Any further update to that last sentence of yours? Is man-pages able
to use that patch you sent?
  I have done nothing in this case, and I suppose that will wait
until autumn or winter.

  A better solution is to simplify the footnote:

  See groff_char(7) (soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 (shy)
or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
So, I applied the patch below. Okay?

Cheers,

Michael
--- a/man7/iso_8859-1.7
+++ b/man7/iso_8859-1.7
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ manual page.
 The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
 in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
 .TS
-l l l c lp-1.
+l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
 Oct    Dec     Hex     Char    Description
 _
 240    160     A0      <A0>    NO-BREAK SPACE
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ _
 252    170     AA      <AA>    FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
 253    171     AB      <AB>    LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
 254    172     AC      <AC>    NOT SIGN
-255    173     AD      -       SOFT HYPHEN
+255    173     AD      <AD>    SOFT HYPHEN (shown as a hyphen at line
breaks) [1]
 256    174     AE      <AE>    REGISTERED SIGN
 257    175     AF      <AF>    MACRON
 260    176     B0      <B0>    DEGREE SIGN
@@ -171,6 +171,14 @@ _
 376    254     FE      <FE>    LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
 377    255     FF      <FF>    LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
 .TE
+.IP [1] 4
+See
+.BR groff_char (7)
+(soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 ("shy",
+paragraph 6.3.3)
+or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
+.BR "ISO 8859-1:1987" ,
+paragraph 6.3.3.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR ascii (7),
 .BR iso_8859-15 (7)

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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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