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29.2; "\fC" macro in ox-man.el

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From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 69483 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Subject: Re: bug#69483: 29.2; "\fC" macro in ox-man.el
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:24:31 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:21:26 -0800
>> 
>> 
>> "mu4e"[1] (a popular Emacs mail client) uses Org to generate its
>> manpages.  However, the generated output contains macros that are not
>> understood by groff.  After some debugging, Jeremy traced this back to
>> the macro "\fC" used in ox-man.el[2].  Git history shows that this may
>> have been there since the beginning.  We tried to find a documentation
>> for the "\fC" macro but has not been able to find one.  Jeremy suggests
>> that "C" may be an old alias for Courier, and if that's the case it
>> should be changed to "\f[CR]".  Would be great if Org people can
>> confirm.
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/djcb/mu
>> [2] E.g. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/org/ox-man.el#n362
>>     (Credit to Jeremy Sowden <jeremy <at> azazel.net>)
>
> Thanks.  I think this should be reported to the Org developers first,
> as ox-man.el is developed and maintained by them.

Ack.  Sent using `M-x org-submit-bug-report'.

-- 
Xiyue Deng

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