GNU bug report logs - #53770
[PATCH] woman.el: remove kerning escapes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Brendan O'Dea <bod <at> debian.org>

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 05:44:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Brendan O'Dea <bod <at> debian.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] woman.el: remove kerning escapes
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 16:42:38 +1100

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Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Some manual pages use kerning escapes* to correctly handle adjacent
roman and italic characters.  The woman function doesn't interpret them,
resulting in output such as the following from `ls'.

  ls [\,OPTION\/]... [\,FILE\/]...

  --color[=\,WHEN\/]
          colorize the  output; WHEN can be  'always' (default if
          omitted), 'auto', or 'never'; more info below

Attached is a trivial patch to remove them.

--bod

* https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Ligatures-and-Kerning.html#Ligatures-and-Kerning

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Brendan O'Dea <bod <at> debian.org>
Cc: 53770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53770: [PATCH] woman.el: remove kerning escapes
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 07:51:25 +0100

Brendan O'Dea <bod <at> debian.org> writes:

> Attached is a trivial patch to remove them.

Thanks; pushed to Emacs 29.

This change was small enough to apply without assigning copyright to the
FSF, but for future patches you want to submit, it might make sense to
get the paperwork started now, so that subsequent patches can be applied
speedily. Would you be willing to sign such paperwork?

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