On Wed, Mar 26, 2014, Boss Hog wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:34:27AM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > > > > My feeling is that the quality of the line-breaking algorithm is something > > that will be noticed by typography nerds, but the difficulty of installing > > new typefaces...
Have you checked out the 'install-font.sh' script at http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-05.html#install-font Takes about two seconds to install a font. > > ...is something that will be noticed by any groff user who > > wants anything other than Times or Helvetica. So there is some argument > > that wider font support ought to be higher priority. > > > > Perhaps include more fonts in a seperate groff-fonts-extras package? Licensing hell, unless the fonts are released freely. In my experience, very few freely-available fonts are of sufficient caliber to go in a groff-fonts-extra package except the obvious ones like CM and Liberation. > Personally I enjoy adjusting the kerning pairs via the groff font, leaving > the oringinal font intact for other applications. Interesting comment. I have a large library of fonts that all started out as .ttf and .otf. and got converted to Type1 for use with groff. I adjust kern pairs in the font files all the time. Very handy. But native support for other types doesn't preclude converting to Type1 to take advantage of this. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
