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| author | John Ankarström <john@ankarstrom.se> | 2022-06-10 23:46:50 +0200 |
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| committer | John Ankarström <john@ankarstrom.se> | 2022-06-10 23:46:50 +0200 |
| commit | 92e817ce5417406006701f0c7060f8c692148fe6 (patch) | |
| tree | c8d27cb51ca622d1cf2545919a4b2830899d287c | |
| parent | be7d65efa1ca204f4aa78c054f25f612769eacee (diff) | |
| download | lightroff-92e817ce5417406006701f0c7060f8c692148fe6.tar.gz | |
Use UTF-8 encoding for README.
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 24 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ lex.yy.c: xroff.lex flex xroff.lex README: README.t - <README.t groff -ms -Tlatin1 | sed "s/\x1b\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]//g" >README + <README.t groff -ms -Tutf8 | sed "s/\x1b\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]//g" >README README.t: README.x <README.x ./xroff >README.t @@ -10,17 +10,17 @@ Xroff, an alternative troff syntax - John Ankarstrm + John Ankarström Introduction Xroff is an alternative syntax for troff, visually inspired -by SGML/XML. It differs from troff's default syntax in the +by SGML/XML. It differs from troff’s default syntax in the following ways: -1. Xroff requests begin with a less-than sign and end with a - greater-than sign, e.g., <SH 1>. These symbols may be es- +1. Xroff requests begin with a less‐than sign and end with a + greater‐than sign, e.g., <SH 1>. These symbols may be es‐ caped with a backslash.* 2. Xroff requests may be used inline. The following works as @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ following ways: 4. Default troff syntax may be used between <![ and ]>. The similarities with XML end at the visual level. Unlike -XML, xroff is unstructured and imperative. There is no con- +XML, xroff is unstructured and imperative. There is no con‐ cept of closing tags. Example @@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ Example wisi nec facilisis facilisis, est dui fermentum leo, quis tempor ligula erat quis odio. Nunc porta vulputate tellus. ------------ +─────────── * For comparison, default troff requests begin with a newline and a control character, usually a -period or an apostrophe, and end with another new- +period or an apostrophe, and end with another new‐ line. ** Before an inline request, xroff automatically inserts a \c escape when appropriate. @@ -67,23 +67,23 @@ inserts a \c escape when appropriate. - -2- + ‐2‐ Xroff The program xroff translates xroff source to troff source. -Xroff-mode +Xroff‐mode -For Emacs users, there is a major mode named xroff-mode that +For Emacs users, there is a major mode named xroff‐mode that provides syntax highlighting for xroff source. To further -improve the writing experience, I also recommend olivetti- +improve the writing experience, I also recommend olivetti‐ mode. Caveats -Xroff does not treat indented lines specially. As such, in- +Xroff does not treat indented lines specially. As such, in‐ dentation cannot be used to convey structure. |