Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: bob To: X-Mailer: Poco 2.03 (690) - Registered Version Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 20:38:45 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20000511021645.13996.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com> Subject: Re: man pages with weird characters Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="50462234" Message-ID: --50462234 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thank you, I've 'been living with it'. I was starting to think of= upside-down exclaimation points as standard punctuation for word= breaks. Or maybe I just spend too much time staring at MAN= pages! >--- David O'Shea wrote: >-8<- >> >> The solution I found was to edit /lib/man.conf and change= the >> lines: >> >> NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc >> NEQN /usr/bin/eqn -Tlatin1 >> >> to: >> >> NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc >> NEQN /usr/bin/eqn -Tascii >> >> This stops grotty from trying to use a special dash= character >> (0xAD); it will just use a standard ASCII minus sign as found= on >>your >> keyboard. >> >> This fixed the problem for me at least - I don't know if others >> experience this problem (maybe they do and can just ignore= it!), >>but >> hopefully someone else will find this useful. If this is= standard >> behaviour on all Windows boxes, maybe cygwin could come like= this >>by >> default? >> > >Yes, and thanks for the fix. > >Cheers, > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >--- > Earnie Boyd: > __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ >Cygwin Newbies:= > __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ > Mingw32 List: > Mingw Home: > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com/ > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com --50462234 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Thank you, I've 'been living with it'. I was= starting to think of upside-down= exclaimation points as standard punctuation for word= breaks. Or maybe I just spend too= much time staring at MAN pages!



>--- David O'Shea= <david AT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT au> wrote:
>-8<-
>>
>>     The solution= I found was to edit /lib/man.conf and change the
>> lines:
>>
>> NROFF   =             /usr/bin/groff= -Tlatin1 -mandoc
>> NEQN     =           /usr/bin/eqn= -Tlatin1
>>
>> to:
>>
>> NROFF   =             /usr/bin/groff -Tascii= -mandoc
>> NEQN     =           /usr/bin/eqn= -Tascii
>>
>>     This stops= grotty from trying to use a special dash character
>> (0xAD); it will just use= a standard ASCII minus sign as found on
>>your
>> keyboard.
>>
>>     This fixed= the problem for me at least - I don't know if others
>> experience this problem= (maybe they do and can just ignore it!),
>>but
>> hopefully someone else= will find this useful.  If this is standard
>> behaviour on all Windows= boxes, maybe cygwin could come like this
>>by
>> default?
>>
>
>Yes, and thanks for the= fix.
>
>Cheers,
>
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>---
>  Earnie Boyd: <">mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT co= m>;
>      __Cygwin:= POSIX on Windows__
>Cygwin Newbies: <">http:= //www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html>;
>      __Minimali= st GNU for Windows__
> Mingw32 List: <">http://www.egroups= com/group/mingw32/>;
>  Mingw Home: <">http://www.mingw.org/>;
>
>______________________________________________= ____
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