Re: [Groff] Re: groff: radical re-implementation
>>>>> "FU" == Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp> writes:
FU> At Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:19:09 +0900,
FU> Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@riken.go.jp> wrote:
> Though you may already know, please note that
> - Japanese and Chinese text contains few whitespace characters.
> (Japanese and Chinese words are not separated by whitespace).
> Therefore, different line-breaking algorithm should be used.
> (Hyphen character is not used when a word is broken into lines.)
> (Modern Korean language contains whitespace characters between
> words --- though not words, strictly speaking.)
FU> As regards line breaking algorithm, I think we need some more cflags,
FU> at least for Japanese. That is,
[...]
FU> For tty output device, UTF-8 and postprocessor may be possible, but
FU> how about X, ps, or dvi?
It sounds to me that we should make the beast again :< How about
making a good roff -> html converter and call mozilla to do proper
conversion(X11, ps, text, etc...)? :) Just kidding. sorry.
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