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From: keld@freja.diku.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
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Subject: Re^2: What features would you like in GNU troff?
Keywords: troff font families SoftQuad
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Date: 27 Jun 89 19:17:39 GMT
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Something I would like to see in a GNU troff was support for
8-bit character sets like LATIN-1 and LATIN-2, with additional
support for people only having 7-bit (ASCII) equipment using the
full character sets. This would be very useful in Europe, Canada,
Mexico and South America and other places where European languages
other than English is used.

Part of this is to provide standard names for 8-bit characters,
and Brian Kernighan of AT&T Bell Laboratories is maintaining
a list of these character names. I have been collaborating on the
formation of this list, and I can send you an article on this.

Another thing I would personallly favor is a combined nroff/troff
product, so you can use troff on any printer, regardless how dumb it
is.