Hi Oliver, At 2023-04-23T22:05:42+0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > the recent experiments with Cyrillic-capable fonts encourage me to > continue my experiments. > > I made a little test file for Russian (russ.ms) which runs smoothly > with > > $ groff -k -ms russ.ms > russ.ps > $ ps2pdf russ.ps > > Direct compilation with -Tpdf would generate a pdf file > 1 MB, hence > the ps2pdf step. > > This setup is without any Russian hyphenation patterns, so the long > words (between 25 and 3x characters) in the first section will not get > hyphenated. Astonishingly enough, even in two column mode without any > hyphenation the Russian text looks quite acceptable. > > Now I am considering modifying an existing TeX hyphenation file for > groff use.
Wait! Before you do that, check out the post-1.23.0 branch in groff Git, where this has already been done! https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/?h=post-1.23.0 We also have Spanish localization on the cooker for groff-next. I've personally quit doing work on the post-1.23.0 branch because I keep revising my own changes. I have a "private branch" that I make public, but clobber and replace it every week or two since our Git repo is apparently not configured to let me force-push like a GitHub feature branch. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/log/?h=branden-2023-04-20 I discourage people from committing to this branch--that's why it starts with my name--but I welcome code reviews and critique, or I wouldn't make it public at all. Its README.branch file says more. 13 bug fixes are available in the branch; they will have to await the reopening of master for non-documentation changes after groff 1.23.0 is finalized--unless Bertrand elects to cherry-pick some, or directs me to. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?go_report=Apply&group=groff&func=browse&set=custom&msort=0&report_id=225&advsrch=0&bug_id=&summary=&submitted_by=0&resolution_id=10&assigned_to=0&bug_group_id=0&status_id=1&severity=0&category_id=0&plan_release_id=0&history_search=0&history_field=0&history_event=modified&history_date_dayfd=24&history_date_monthfd=4&history_date_yearfd=2023&chunksz=50&spamscore=5&boxoptionwanted=1#options (Unfortunately, Savannah is resistant to bite-sized URLs.) Regards, Branden
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