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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Xiyue Deng <manphiz <at> gmail.com>, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 69483 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#69483: 29.2; "\fC" macro in ox-man.el
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 09:04:11 +0200

> 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.

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