-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-02-09 at 17:56 +0100, Jos van Kan wrote: ...
But wait, you're almost there! The only thing you need is a sed script to convert the utf-8 symbols to groff_char(7) gibberish, right?
Yes, right. But from latin1: manedit does not support utf.
Something like utf2groff
#!/bin/sed -f # # Convert utf 8 to groff_char(7)
s/é/\\('e/g s/è/\\(`e/g . . . # etc
Doesn't seem complicated... I've never done a sed script. I was thinking of doing it in pascal, just for the laugh of it, but sed would maintainable by others if needed.
You'd have to throw that script together only once and then you can write, proofread and spell check to your heart's content and when it's ok convert it to gibberish.
Yes... I could work on the "file.in" file, and the Makefile would handle whatever it currently does, plus the conversion, producing the file.1
Maybe it even exists already. :-)
It should. But it also should exist a man/troff editor for dummies: it doesn't even require graphics, it could be done in a terminal. It is a vetust format, a reliq of times well past, but here it is, alive and kicking. Specially that, kicking me. I have seen a procedure to generate troff out of opendocument format (in the Heirloom Project). I haven't tested it, but I wonder. If that works, it would make things like spell checking much easier. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHrfaatTMYHG2NR9URAn7IAJ9etREQShv5DWVQ0G12pOVIr4KnNgCfXuqg nU+A25z5QFZZcC+mGHNRj7o= =WYzY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----