#! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # fix-roff-punct: Fix up punctuation usage in automatically-generated # troff files (man pages). # Authors: # Peter Moulder # # Copyright (C) 2004 Monash University # # Gnu GPL v2+: # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as # published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the # License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # Background: Humans use a number of dash-like characters: # # - ASCII hyphen/minus needed for command-line options and other computer # input; # - hyphen (`one-to-one'); # - en dash (`2000-2003'); # - em dash -- like this. [Not currently handled.] # # Troff input spells them as \-, -, \[en], \[em] respectively. (See the # groff_char.7 man page for a full list of such punctuation characters.) If # you run `man' with your LC_CTYPE indicating a rich character set like unicode # (UTF-8 encoding), then it uses different output characters for each of the # above. # # In particular, if your man page source has plain `-' when giving an example # of a flag or command or other program input, then users won't be able to use # mouse copy&paste from the formatted man page. # This script is something of a hack: it is only big enough to handle a few man # pages of interest (produced by pod2man). You should manually check the # changes it makes. # Approach: we handle each line a word at a time, and typically make the same # hyphen-vs-ASCII decision throughout the word. We're a bit haphazard about # word-splitting, but it's hard to find an example of where we'd be hurt by # that, and by luck we would do the right thing for many gcc options like # `-fconstant-string-class=\fICLASS-NAME\fR' (where CLASS-NAME should use a # hyphen and the others should be ASCII hyphen-minus). # # Perl's /e (execute) flag for substitutions does just what we want # for preserving non-word bits while transforming "words". # # We don't currently handle special things like `apt-get' that look like # hyphenated english words but are actually program names. In general the # problem is AI complete, e.g. `apt-gettable' could be either hyphen (gettable # by apt) or ASCII hyphen-minus (able to be processed by the `apt-get' # program). # # We don't currently take hints from font choice. (E.g. text in CR font should # probably use ASCII hyphen-minus.) # # We currently only handle a couple troff requests and escapes (see groff.7). sub frob ($); my $yearRE = qr/(?:19[6-9]|20[013])[0-9]/; sub frob ($) { my ($x) = @_; # Consider splitting into two words. if ($x =~ m{\A(.*?)(\\(?:[&/,~:d]|f[BRI]|s-?[0-9]+))(.*)\z}) { my ($before, $s, $after) = ($1, $2, $3); return frob($before) . $s . frob($after); } if ($x =~ m{\A(.*?)(\.+)\z}) { my $d = $2; return frob($1) . $d; } # `32-bit', `5-page'. if ($x =~ m{\A[0-9]+-[a-z]+\z}) { return $x; } # Year range: `(C) 1998-2003'. if ($x =~ m{\A$yearRE\\?-$yearRE\z}) { $x =~ s{\\?-}{\\[en]}; return $x; } # ISO date. if ($x =~ m{\A$yearRE-[01][0-9]-[0-3][0-9]\z}) { return $x; } # Things likely to be computer input. if ($x =~ m{[0-9]|\.[a-zA-Z]|\A(?:[-/.]|\\-|\[.*\]\z)}) { $x =~ s/\\?-/\\-/g; return $x; } $x =~ s/\\?-/-/g; return $x; } while(<>) { if ($_ eq '.tr \(*W-|\(bv\*(Tr' . "\n") { # Get rid of pod2man's "helpful" munging of pipe symbol. next; } # Leave ASCII apostrophe unchanged (i.e. \[aq]) for examples. if (/\A\\\& /) { s/'/\\[aq]/g; # `\[aq]' = "ascii quote" } if (/\A\.IP /) { s/\\?-/\\-/g; s/\\s\\-1/\\s-1/g; } elsif (/\A\.IX /) { s/\\?-/-/g; } elsif (!/\A\. *(?:\\"|ds|if|ie)/) { # As an optimization, we process only words containing `-'. s{([.@/\\[:alnum:]]*-[-.@/\\[:alnum:]]*)}{frob($1)}ge; } print; }