* [9fans] /sys/man/2:ran
@ 2003-09-16 23:37 boyd
2003-09-16 23:47 ` Russ Cox
2003-09-17 8:50 ` Charles Forsyth
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From: boyd @ 2003-09-16 23:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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
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2003-09-16 23:37 [9fans] /sys/man/2:ran boyd
@ 2003-09-16 23:47 ` Russ Cox
2003-09-17 8:50 ` Charles Forsyth
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From: Russ Cox @ 2003-09-16 23:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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?
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* Re: [9fans] /sys/man/2:ran
2003-09-16 23:37 [9fans] /sys/man/2:ran boyd
2003-09-16 23:47 ` Russ Cox
@ 2003-09-17 8:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-09-17 9:17 ` Charles Forsyth
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From: Charles Forsyth @ 2003-09-17 8:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>>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.
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