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authorDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-22 18:54:19 +0000
committerDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-22 18:54:19 +0000
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Our -man package does not understand .PN and .MS. So use .B (bold) until
I figure out what is the correct spelling for .PN and .MS.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=46656
Diffstat (limited to 'vietnamese/vnterm')
-rw-r--r--vietnamese/vnterm/files/vnterm.1V38
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/vietnamese/vnterm/files/vnterm.1V b/vietnamese/vnterm/files/vnterm.1V
index 253a67a66a35..ddf10878d573 100644
--- a/vietnamese/vnterm/files/vnterm.1V
+++ b/vietnamese/vnterm/files/vnterm.1V
@@ -13,18 +13,18 @@ vnterm \- X-terminal with Vietnamese
[\fIregular_xterm_options\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.NXR "vnterm command"
-Version 3.3 of
-.PN vnterm
-is an adaptation of the X11R5
-.MS xterm 1X
+Version 3.4 of
+.B vnterm
+is an adaptation of the X11R6.5.1
+.B xterm 1X
command. This manual page describes only
those features specific to
-.PN vnterm ;
+.B vnterm ;
please consult the manual page for
-.MS xterm 1X
+.B xterm 1X
for the rest of the story.
.PP
-.PN Vnterm
+.B Vnterm
allows the X-environment user to type and
display Vietnamese text. The keyboard input
scheme follows the
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Vietnamese networking convention of placing Vietnamese
diacritical marks after the vowel, for example: "Vie^.t Nam".
.PP
With the appropriate font setting,
-.PN vnterm
+.B vnterm
can display both 7-bit and 8-bit
Vietnamese text. The 7-bit text is assumed
to follow the
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ both published by the Viet-Std working group
(Viet-Std@Haydn.Stanford.EDU).
.PP
On start-up,
-.PN vnterm
+.B vnterm
attempts to set the tty line to 8-bit mode,
with canonical echoing of control characters turned off
(because the Vietnamese characters "A(? A(~ A^~ Y? Y~ Y."
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ can also be found and set
in the
"VT\ Options"
menu of
-.PN vnterm ,
+.B vnterm ,
which you may access by clicking the CTRL-middle-mouse-button
combination.
The corresponding X resources are:
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Vietnamese composition takes place.
The erase character (which is needed to backspace
over the Vietnamese letter being composed)
is figured from the terminal settings at the time
-.PN vnterm
+.B vnterm
is invoked. In those cases where it is necessary
to specify another erase character,
.I vnEraseCharacter
@@ -164,17 +164,19 @@ in which almost all keys are passed literally.
.IP o
If your shell is tcsh, you may find that it's unfriendly
to 8-bit data; this means Vietnamese characters cannot
-be used. Use csh in the
-.PN vnterm
+be used. Use
+.I sh
+in the
+.B vnterm
window instead.
.PP
.IP o
In some cases
-.PN vnterm
+.B vnterm
may fail to set the terminal mode correctly for 8-bits.
This will happen when your shell is "smart" and undoes the
settings performed by
-.PN vnterm
+.B vnterm
on start-up.
In this case issue the command:
.EX
@@ -188,7 +190,7 @@ with 7-bit Vietnamese that is conformant to the VIQR
standard.
With the Viet-Net style text alone, there are potential
ambiguities which
-.PN vnterm
+.B vnterm
will not interpret correctly, e.g., in displaying
the question "La`m chi?", where the question mark
will be taken to be a hook-above (da^'u ho?i),
@@ -203,9 +205,9 @@ causing it not to display Vietnamese properly afterwards.
When this happens, simply turn the screen filter
off and on again, by using the CTRL-middle-mouse-button
menu of
-.PN vnterm.
+.B vnterm.
.SH AUTHOR
-4.4BSD porting by David O'Brien <obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu>
+4.4BSD porting and X11R6 updating by David O'Brien <obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu>
.PP
Adapted from X11R5's xterm by
Tin Le <tin@saigon.com>