Hi Oliver, At 2023-12-18T21:57:07+0100, Oliver Corff wrote: > Enter groff 1.23.0. I compiled the same file again (a translation which > I had finished just this morning, not knowing what an escape I had*), > and alas! things took an unexpected course. First I looked for the > appearance of ≤ and was astonished to see that not only was it > invisible, it was truly invisible as no placeholder box appeared; blank > space was there, at least. Then I noticed strange holes in the text --- > the Greek letters did not show up either. Again, no placeholder box, > just white space. > > So, this is a brand-new Fedora 39 installation with groff version > 1.23.0, the URW fonts being found in /usr/share/fons/urw-base35/. > > My first question: Is this new behaviour intended?
Probably not. Oddly, not much earlier today, we got a similar report from T. Kurt Bond about the URW fonts being troublesome--as in, not found--in a groff build from source on Fedora 39. So something would appear to be amiss. I'm hoping Deri can help us figure it out. > If so, what I am I supposed to do? > > If not, what kind of tests and diagnostics should I conduct? > > If I compile a minimal ms document like > > .PP > 1≤2 > > I can copy and paste the white space between 1 and 2 from the resulting > pdf document, and lo and behold, it is a "≤" ! Your copy and paste operation is going through the PDF's "CMap" feature, which narrows things down a little. Maybe the font needs to be embedded but it isn't? I'm just stabbing in the dark here. gropdf's `-e` option will embed all fonts. If that fixes the problem, then the issue would appear to be that the PDF _viewer_ programs on Fedora 39 are not finding the URW fonts, not that groff isn't. > And, as a side-note, there is a typo in refer(1), right in the first > line(2) of ther first contiguous paragraph: "a preprocessor that > prepares bibilographic citations". Since fixed. Expect the correct spelling in groff 1.24. commit 306441e44693a503eb12df483f59f68844d205d6 Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> AuthorDate: Tue Sep 12 04:25:48 2023 -0500 Regards, Branden
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