Hi Branden, thank you very much for your encouraging feedback.
Indeed I did neither mention nor note in the example file (multitest.ms --- I thought the .ms in the file name tells the story) that I use groff_ms(7) as it is really at a sweet spot between simplicity of use and aesthetics of produced document. I remember I had used the .fam request before, at the very beginning of a document, which always produced the desired result: the *entire* document is typeset in the selected family. However, since this time I used .fam for the first time somewhere within the document, I first failed to understand that, in this case, its scope is limited to the current paragraph. This is a tentative statement from my side, I should really test which of the .LP, .PP, .SH, .NH etc. requests will end the effect of the .fam request. After reading your mail, I tried again to start the whole document with the .fam Libertine request, et voilà, the whole document is typeset in the chosen font family. In the meantime, I tried to typeset several pages of Chinese, but alas, there were quite a few blank positions in the text, and I assume that at the current state the limitations in the number of characters (message by GhostScript: Can't embed the complete font DFSongStd as it is too large, embedding a subset.) will work for texts which contain snippets of Chinese, e.g. scholarly articles with Chinese references (words, proper names, literature). I'll write a test which increments the number of different Chinese characters used in one document and tests the threshold which triggers the above-mentioned message. Thank you very much for the hint regarding .fam, Best regards, Oliver. On 21/04/2023 19:15, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Oliver, At 2023-04-21T14:59:43+0200, Oliver Corff wrote:I successfully ran Peter's font-install.sh to install Linux Libertine as a new font.[...]The first observation: .PP .\"fam Libertine Орос хэл, монгол үлгэр. Үлэг гүрвэлийн өндөг. If I start a new paragraph, the .fam Libertine request seems to have been forgotten. Is it limited to the scope of the current paragraph? I have to say again: .fam LibertineYou did not say, but I surmise that you are using the ms(7) package. (man(7) also has a `PP` macro, but does not behave the same way.)Is it limited to the scope of the current paragraph?Yes, if you use a low-level request like this. groff ms(7) supports the `FAM` string to persistently change the font family, starting at the next paragraph.[1] This is documented in groff_ms(7) and (in the forthcoming 1.23.0) the ms.ms document. If you have read my unfortunate exchanges with Christof Meerwald, you know how I feel about the use of low-level requests when a macro package provides a facility for accomplishing the same objective.[2] I'm thrilled to hear that this is working well, and will work better for more people as soon as we can release! Regards, Branden [1] This basic feature goes "all the way back". ^351da0dcd macros/tmac.s (James Clark 1991-06-02 04:20:34 -0500 1155) .de par@reset [...] ^351da0dcd macros/tmac.s (James Clark 1991-06-02 04:20:34 -0500 1174) .ft 1 ^351da0dcd macros/tmac.s (James Clark 1991-06-02 04:20:34 -0500 1175) .fam \\*[FAM] ...but I have tweaked it for groff 1.23.[3] Exactly two years ago, as it turns out... [2] See attachment. ;-) :-P [3] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=90e85401af4749809469a1b47e7504b0364fe6f8
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.fam Libertine .TL A Test of Multiple Languages and Fonts .AU Oliver Corff .LP We do not need an abstract here. .PP .\" fam Libertine Орос хэл, монгол үлгэр, монгол өндөг: .PP The next Cyrillic characters are not printed without the .fam request at the very beginning of the document: .\" fam Libertine Орос хэл, монгол үлгэр, монгол өндөг: .PP .\" fam Libertine Zahlreiche elementare Wörter wie άνθρωπος (ánthropos „Mensch“), θάλασσα (thálassa „Meer“), θεός (theós „Gott“), ουρανός (ouranós „Himmel“) oder φίλος (fílos „Freund“) sind seit Jahrtausenden nahezu unverändert Bestandteil der griechischen Sprache. .LP .\" fam Libertine .ft R πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει. .sp .15 τοῦτο καὶ πολιοῦ πέραν πόντου χειμερίῳ νότῳ .sp .15 χωρεῖ, περιβρυχίοισιν .sp .15 περῶν ὑπ᾽ οἴδμασιν. .sp .15 θεῶν τε τὰν ὑπερτάταν, Γᾶν .sp .15 ἄφθιτον, ἀκαμάταν, ἀποτρύεται .sp .15 ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων ἔτος εἰς ἔτος, .sp .15 ἱππείῳ γένει πολεύων. .LP .fam Song 今日は .sp .25 中华人民共和国 .sp .25 中華民國
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