1 #! /usr/bin/perl -w
2 use strict;
4 # fix-roff-punct: Fix up punctuation usage in automatically-generated
5 # troff files (man pages).
7 # Authors:
8 # Peter Moulder <pmoulder@mail.csse.monash.edu.au>
9 #
10 # Copyright (C) 2004 Monash University
11 #
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29 # Background: Humans use a number of dash-like characters:
30 #
31 # - ASCII hyphen/minus needed for command-line options and other computer
32 # input;
33 # - hyphen (`one-to-one');
34 # - en dash (`2000-2003');
35 # - em dash -- like this. [Not currently handled.]
36 #
37 # Troff input spells them as \-, -, \[en], \[em] respectively. (See the
38 # groff_char.7 man page for a full list of such punctuation characters.) If
39 # you run `man' with your LC_CTYPE indicating a rich character set like unicode
40 # (UTF-8 encoding), then it uses different output characters for each of the
41 # above.
42 #
43 # In particular, if your man page source has plain `-' when giving an example
44 # of a flag or command or other program input, then users won't be able to use
45 # mouse copy&paste from the formatted man page.
47 # This script is something of a hack: it is only big enough to handle a few man
48 # pages of interest (produced by pod2man). You should manually check the
49 # changes it makes.
51 # Approach: we handle each line a word at a time, and typically make the same
52 # hyphen-vs-ASCII decision throughout the word. We're a bit haphazard about
53 # word-splitting, but it's hard to find an example of where we'd be hurt by
54 # that, and by luck we would do the right thing for many gcc options like
55 # `-fconstant-string-class=\fICLASS-NAME\fR' (where CLASS-NAME should use a
56 # hyphen and the others should be ASCII hyphen-minus).
57 #
58 # Perl's /e (execute) flag for substitutions does just what we want
59 # for preserving non-word bits while transforming "words".
60 #
61 # We don't currently handle special things like `apt-get' that look like
62 # hyphenated english words but are actually program names. In general the
63 # problem is AI complete, e.g. `apt-gettable' could be either hyphen (gettable
64 # by apt) or ASCII hyphen-minus (able to be processed by the `apt-get'
65 # program).
66 #
67 # We don't currently take hints from font choice. (E.g. text in CR font should
68 # probably use ASCII hyphen-minus.)
69 #
70 # We currently only handle a couple troff requests and escapes (see groff.7).
72 sub frob ($);
74 my $yearRE = qr/(?:19[6-9]|20[013])[0-9]/;
76 sub frob ($) {
77 my ($x) = @_;
79 # Consider splitting into two words.
80 if ($x =~ m{\A(.*?)(\\(?:[&/,~:d]|f[BRI]|s-?[0-9]+))(.*)\z}) {
81 my ($before, $s, $after) = ($1, $2, $3);
82 return frob($before) . $s . frob($after);
83 }
85 if ($x =~ m{\A(.*?)(\.+)\z}) {
86 my $d = $2;
87 return frob($1) . $d;
88 }
90 # `32-bit', `5-page'.
91 if ($x =~ m{\A[0-9]+-[a-z]+\z}) {
92 return $x;
93 }
95 # Year range: `(C) 1998-2003'.
96 if ($x =~ m{\A$yearRE\\?-$yearRE\z}) {
97 $x =~ s{\\?-}{\\[en]};
98 return $x;
99 }
101 # ISO date.
102 if ($x =~ m{\A$yearRE-[01][0-9]-[0-3][0-9]\z}) {
103 return $x;
104 }
106 # Things likely to be computer input.
107 if ($x =~ m{[0-9]|\.[a-zA-Z]|\A(?:[-/.]|\\-|\[.*\]\z)}) {
108 $x =~ s/\\?-/\\-/g;
109 return $x;
110 }
112 $x =~ s/\\?-/-/g;
113 return $x;
114 }
116 while(<>) {
117 if ($_ eq '.tr \(*W-|\(bv\*(Tr' . "\n") {
118 # Get rid of pod2man's "helpful" munging of pipe symbol.
119 next;
120 }
122 # Leave ASCII apostrophe unchanged (i.e. \[aq]) for examples.
123 if (/\A\\\& /) {
124 s/'/\\[aq]/g; # `\[aq]' = "ascii quote"
125 }
127 if (/\A\.IP /) {
128 s/\\?-/\\-/g;
129 s/\\s\\-1/\\s-1/g;
130 }
131 elsif (/\A\.IX /) {
132 s/\\?-/-/g;
133 }
134 elsif (!/\A\. *(?:\\"|ds|if|ie)/) {
135 # As an optimization, we process only words containing `-'.
136 s{([.@/\\[:alnum:]]*-[-.@/\\[:alnum:]]*)}{frob($1)}ge;
137 }
138 print;
139 }