[9fans] /sys/man/2:ran

[9fans] /sys/man/2:ran

[boyd]

    brahma% whatis font
    font=/lib/font/bit/lucm/unicode.9.font

this is (more or less) what i was gonna post the other day.

russ you jumped-up PhD student idiot.  do your research.

we don't all live in 1127[1] so don't expect the rest of
the world to be like it.

the troff was broken.

you only accept stuff when it suits you and if it don't,
well hell, i'm gonna 'do a choate' here:

    you don't want plan 9 fans to contribute?

    well i'll go an burn my bowling shirt right now

punk!


ps. sorry dan

Re: [9fans] /sys/man/2:ran

[Russ Cox]

boyd:

	it would appeared to be peter-ed out.  now what where we saying about
	this being bad?  i think this diff fixes it:

	brahma% diff /sys/man/2/rand $home/man/2
	54c54
	< .RI 0≤ x <2\u\s715\s10\d.
	---
	> .RI "0 <= " x " < 2\u\s715\s10\d."

	...

	the troff was broken.

no it isn't.  it has unicode less-than-or-equal-to
symbols (0x2264) in it.  peter faces mean you are
using a font without that symbol, somehow.

or did i miss the point of your post?

Re: [9fans] /sys/man/2:ran

[Charles Forsyth]

>>the troff was broken.

i'm not sure that's right; i think the problem lies elsewhere.
if it had been the use of that character, a better thing to do might have been to use \(<= so it
looks right when actually printed, or run through proof or page.  unfortunately
\(<= would produce a different discouraging effect in your case, so
there's little point in doing that.

>>we don't all live in 1127[1] so don't expect the rest of
>>the world to be like it.

actually, i suspect russ is elsewhere, but if not, it still doesn't
matter because it does work correctly at two other Plan 9 sites,
with that font= (and the ones i normally use).

if there is a problem, it might have been with the
font file (arguably all but special-purpose ones should have those
symbols), or perhaps with the troff configuration.
perhaps it's drawterm (seems possible to me, but i haven't yet booted Windows to try it).
might be something else, but nonetheless that original Unicode input is intended to work
(in Plan 9 troff).    /sys/lib/tmac/tmac.uni (which i think is undocumented)
is sometimes used by documents to get even more unicode to work.
the use of ≤ is built-in though.

Re: [9fans] /sys/man/2:ran

[Charles Forsyth]

it's something to do with drawterm.

Re: [9fans] /sys/man/2:ran

[Charles Forsyth]

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the instance of drawterm was simply using a different font
(latin1.8.font), presumably so i could cram more on the
screen, but when i switched to another one, it was fine.

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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] /sys/man/2:ran
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:17:59 +0100
Message-ID: <7e09135afcb8c90696c17c6d3aea00e4@caldo.demon.co.uk>

it's something to do with drawterm.