Greetings,
lately I decided to try, try, try again to obtain characters from the Zapf
Dingbats font.
The documentation GROFF_DIFF(7) suggests that I should be able to inject a
sequence
to the effect: \f(ZD\N’37’ (seems plausible)
When I inject that sequence, I get the British Standard Rectangular Lozenge
which is groff’s
way of telling me that the glyph I want doesn’t exist.
Now, you will note that the documentation *tells* you how do obtain the glyph.
As far as
I can see, there is no actual document in the pile of docs that actually
contains a sequence
that actually works in the sense that I can look in the source of a document
that purports to
obtain what I want by demonstrating the glyph(s) I want on the resultant output
page.
I probably sound like a complete dummkopf in this illustrious group, but I have
tried and
failed with both Heirloom and regular groff.
I must add that I maintained the DWB 2.0 suite of tools (including some I wrote
myself) at
Sun Microsystems and other venues from around 1984 through about 2007, at which
point Apple decided in their Infinite Wisdom to break most of the DWB 2.0 suite
forever.
During that time, I had no problems displaying ZD (we had a hack that created
two fonts
named Z1 and Z2, so that the characters from 161 through 254 could be accessed
in
using 7-bit ASCII character codes).
So if there is anyone out there who has an actual document that accesses the ZD
font
and actually displays the desired result, I would very much appreciate seeing
such a
document.
Given this is the Merry Month Of May, what I might need is enlightenment as to
whether I
should circle the Maypole Widdershins or Deasil.
Best Wishes and Thanks In Advance For Any Assistance
. . . . . . . . Henry
