Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > This is not true; Gunnar is actively maintaining heirloom troff. > ... > > - Which are the defaults of heirloom troff? > This question is too vague. IIRC, Gunnar is reading this list (it's > essentially the only list for troff and friends), so he may answer. > ... > > - Why not integrating heirloom troff advantages inside groff? > > Patches are highly welcomed. I simply have not enough time to do that > by myself.
It makes me feel uncomfortable to think I could have deprecated your both work. It was not my intention. I'm a fan of Mr Ritter's work: I've discovered *roff in the heirloom web page (before that day I thought it was only a manpage viewer), I'm using its mailx everyday, and I generaly think that the heirloom project is one of the most beautifull opensource project: It's not only a technical project, but also an aesthetic one. Since that discovery (only a few month ago) I'm using groff, mostly because of the sympathy of this mailing list, and the ability to meet it's maintainers here. You give to the old *roff the strength of a young project. > [...] > > > But the solution explained here doesn't work for Groff. I've tried > > to make a font with small caps, using the "-fsmcp" option. With > > fontforge, I've looked at the pfd file: > > - It has got small caps and normal letters. > > - The small caps are named "a.smcp" where the normals letters are > > named "a". > > Here is the problem, I think. To use `a.smcp' instead of `a', you > have to make groff aware of that with code like this: > > .char a \[a.smcp] > .char b \[b.smcp] > ... > > assuming that after using the `afmtodit' program those glyph names are > in the groff font file. > Thanks, you're right. The groff font file is truncated: the name of the special letters (small caps, old style number...) is not mentionned, (replaced by ---) but they are present, and described in the entity name field. One can repair the groff font file using that sed expression (if first field is "---", it is replaced it by the fourth one): sed -i -e " s/---\t\([^\t]*\)\t\([^\t]*\)\t\([^\t]*\)\t\(.*\)/\4\t\1\t\2\t\3\t\4/" \ groff_font_file Then we can use \[glyph_name] I'll make some tests and post a complete "how-to use opentype fonts" on the list. Thanks a lot! Pierre-Jean.
