I get a whole lot of errors of this type: troff:/usr/local/share/groff/site-font/devpdf/CMUSerifR:13: error: font description file name 'CMUSerifR' does not match 'name' argument 'cmunrm' troff:/home/rdgoulding/.tmac/cmu.tmac:2: error: cannot load font 'CMUSerifR' for mounting troff:/usr/local/share/groff/site-font/devpdf/CMUSerifB:13: error: font description file name 'CMUSerifB' does not match 'name' argument 'cmunbx' troff:rubbish.ms:2: warning: cannot select font 'B'
On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 12:23 PM Alexis <surryh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Damian, > > I've been meaning to use Computer Modern with groff for quite some time. > Your message motivated me to find a semi-automated way to do that. > Thanks! > > Please find attached a Makefile that downloads a specified release > (currently 0.7.0) of the Computer Modern Unicode font sources from > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/cm-unicode/files/ > > and generates the font files for use with groff along with some > helpful font name aliases. > I find the original font names are named in a way that makes them > hard to use, e.g. what font is provided by cmunst? > Whereas their internal font name is much more explicit, e.g. > CMUTypewriterOblique.¹ > > To use the Makefile, place it in a directory you feel comfortable to > include in GROFF_FONT_PATH and run: > > % make download > % make fonts # Needs to be two separate commands for now > > The Makefile requires common command-line utilities like grep, sed, awk > etc. to be available and an installation of groff providing afmtodit. > > > What is the best way to use them? > One very good way I found to use the Computer Modern font in my groff > documents without needing to worry much about the details of setting the > font is using the attached cmu.tmac macro package which substitutes > groff's commonly used font styles (R, B, I, C, CI, etc.) with > an equivalent from Computer Modern Unicode. > > To use cmu.tmac, place it in a directory you feel comfortable to > include IN GROFF_TMAC_PATH and include the cmu macro package, either > via the commandline, i.e. `-mcmu` or from within your document via > `.mso cmu.tmac`. > > As an example the following command produces the documentation > for the ms macro package using Computer Modern Unicode: > > % groff -Tpdf -t -ms -mcmu doc/ms.ms > doc/ms.pdf > > > Hope this helps > Alexis > > > ¹ For those wondering: The Makefile deletes hyphens from the font names > as groff did not properly show the fonts that contained a hyphen > in their name. > -- Robert Goulding Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; Director, Program in History and Philosophy of Science; Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, Fellow, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame.
