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24.1; woman.el points vs pica scaling

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From: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.1; woman.el points vs pica scaling
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:11:03 +1100

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The file picapoints.1 viewed with

    M-x woman-find-file picapoints.1

gives

    12 point spacing                      xxx
    12 picas spacing                      xxx

where I expected that "12p" points would be much less than "12P" picas,
something like maybe

     12 point spacing    xxx
     12 picas spacing                      xxx

It looks like case-fold-search is true in woman-parse-numeric-value
causing "p" points and "P" picas not to be distinguished.

I can't tell if that's meant to be so.  There seems to be duelling
`let's of case significance.  Ensuring it where it matters per diff
below might be a good idea.

2012-10-14  Kevin Ryde  <user42 <at> zip.com.au>

	* woman.el (woman-parse-numeric-value): case-fold-search nil to ensure
	"p" points and "P" picas scaling are distinguished as intended.


I struck this on output from recent perl pod2man where there's some
spacing to make "C++" look good, per cplusplus.1 below.  It's meant for
troff, but when woman wrongly takes it as 1 pica instead of 1 point the
movement forward and back doesn't add up and a space after the construct
is lost, so giving

    Blah C^++blah.

With case-significance fixed it becomes the intended

    Blah C^++ blah.

[picapoints.1 (text/plain, attachment)]

[woman.el.picas.diff (text/x-diff, attachment)]

[cplusplus.1 (text/plain, attachment)]

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In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.8)
 of 2012-08-07 on blah.blah, modified by Debian
Configured using:
 `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu'
 '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
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 '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes'
 '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars'
 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector
 --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall'
 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_AU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

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