URL:
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Summary: Problems with fonts with no /space glyph and no
hyphen glyph
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: deri
Submitted: Thu 04 May 2023 12:10:56 AM UTC
Category: Macro man
Severity: 2 - Minor
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Thu 04 May 2023 12:10:56 AM UTC By: Deri James <deri>
Some fonts (CJK) don't have a space glyph defined, and afmtodit can't add a
spacewidth directive to the troff font, and you have no way of knowing you
needed to add a -w flag until after the font is installed and troff starts
complaining, even though the output is fine.
Not having the hyphen glyph is weird, each time you run with the man macro
(and possibly others), you get this message:-
troff:/home/derij/groff-git/groff/build/../tmac/an.tmac:1512: warning:
character '-' not defined
This is because some devices have a hyphen in their name, so code such as
this:-
. if '\*[.T]'X75-12' \
. nr S 12
. if '\*[.T]'X100-12' \
. nr S 12
Triggers the warning! Perhaps a judicious use of \f(TR and \fP would fix?
I found these minor issues when developing the UTF-16 bookmark support for
gropdf. See attached Japanese man page.
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