Follow-up Comment #7, bug#62921 (group groff):
[comment #1 comment #1:]
> groff's _ms_ and _me_ have support for bold-italic already (and have
> for decades), and it wouldn't be hard to add it to our _mm_ either;
This has been filed as bug #65241.
[comment #5 comment #5:]
> Ideally, distributors like Fedora and Debian would have "package
> triggers", scripts that hook up the plumbing between TrueType
> fonts installed on the system, and the _grops_ and _gropdf_
> output drivers. But even after almost 30 years this has never
> happened. The reason may be that the specialized knowledge
> required is fairly scarce,
Other possible reasons:
* Supporting groff for anything other than displaying man pages on terminals
has never been a high priority / something that distro managers are even aware
it can do.
* To be useful, the triggers would have to be bidirectional, running whenever
a new groff or a new font is installed. While the target code could be
largely the same, the triggers themselves would be two mostly non-overlapping
development efforts.
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