[self-follow-up fixing thinko] At 2025-06-30T23:08:04-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > On Debian-based systems, installing the `gsfonts` package will give > you the PostScript font files supplying its standard font repertoire. > Because PostScript was designed not to require embedding of the > standard fonts in documents, groff can produce PostScript fonts > without them installed.
...can produce PostScript _documents_. > So, even with no font files installed, I'd still expect GNU troff to > read the output device's "DESC" file and mount whatever font > _descriptions_ it instructs. Also, for historical reasons our documentation characterizes "fonts" per se as being "mounted", but that's not completely accurate. Device-independent troffs, when "mounting a font", actually read only its font description file, whose format is documented in groff_font(5). Maybe I should add a footnote to our Texinfo manual on this point. Regards, Branden
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