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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Brendan O'Dea <bod <at> debian.org>
To: 53770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53770: [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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