Now I've written a program that takes minimally marked-up text and formats it as a Postscript file. I take the generated Postscript file and send igtto a Postscript orinter using xpp.
That works fine for most of the text I have to print The minimal markup notation is pure nonstandard hackery. In fact the program has several front ends that accept a few markup notations, including one that's easy to use on ,u alphasmart keyboard. (Also, several back ends will generate html or plain ASCII text instead of postscript) The program usually accepts text in UTF-8 form. Every now and then I have text containing unusual (non-ASCII) characters. It converts them politely from UTF-8 to Unicode, and then does not know how to produce appropriate Postscript for my printer. This is probably a matter of identifying an appropriate font that contains that character, and then sending that to my printer in some way. I can probably find ways to sent the glyph to the printer, provided I can find a suitable font entry somewhere. Now Linux (I'm using Debian etch) has extensive font mechanisms. How can I use these to convert Unicode to Postscript-compatible glyph? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
