From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 69483@debbugs.gnu.org, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Subject: bug#69483: 29.2; "\fC" macro in ox-man.el
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:24:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7byjits.fsf@debian-hx90.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864jdqsaac.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 01 Mar 2024 09:04:11 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz@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@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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2024-03-01 0:21 bug#69483: 29.2; "\fC" macro in ox-man.el Xiyue Deng
2024-03-01 7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-01 11:24 ` Xiyue Deng [this message]
2024-03-09 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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