On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 2:31 PM Deri <d...@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > if Dave wants to use use Spin̈al Tap > This seems to work:- > > printf ".ft TINOR\n.ps 18\nSpin\h'-5p'\[u0308]\h'+5p'al Tap\n.pdfbookmark 1 > Spi\[u006E_0308]al Tap"|test-groff -Tpdf -ms > Spin̈alTap.pdf
Just want to point out that the \h escapes shouldn't be needed for this: a combining diacritic *should* combine with the immediately preceding character automatically. But this has come up before with the Tinos font, and you already delved into the reason; I had to reread http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57506#comment13 to remind myself. > I've explained that, just like any application, all application text > (including the bookmarks panel, info dialog, menus etc, are handled by the > desktop windowing system (GTK, QT ...) only the canvas upon which pages are > rendered has access to the CMap. This is well outside the scope of groff, but I agree with Branden that, while the above makes sense for text supplied *by the application*, the document metadata is supplied *by the document*, and searches of document content ought to follow the same rules regardless of what part of the document's content they're searching.
