Re: [Groff] opentype and postscript fonts

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > My honest respect. Of the lists I have seen this is the one with > the best ratio of low traffic, low noise, high quality, and high > spirit concerning open source. High praise. And merited, methinks. -- Peter Schaffter Author of The Binbrook C

[Groff] refer help

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
Any refer experts out there? I'm overhauling mom's refer handling to make it fully MLA compliant, and I've encountered two issues. The first is that refer doesn't appear to recognize named glyphs in a refer database, eg "Encyclop\[ae]dia Britannica" comes out as "Encyclop dia Britannica" and "Ant

Re: [Groff] opentype and postscript fonts

2010-09-03 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Hello everyone, Pierre-Jean wrote on 03.09.10: > > > I've made some tests. Here is a tutorial about how to use > OpenType fonts with groff. Merci Pierre-Jean! My honest respect. Of the lists I have seen this is the one with the best ratio of low traffic, low noise, high quality, and high spir

Re: [Groff] opentype and postscript fonts

2010-09-03 Thread Pierre-Jean
I've made some tests. Here is a tutorial about how to use OpenType fonts with groff. 1) OpenType font format is just an encapsulation of TrueType fonts or PostScript fonts. When choosing an OpenType font, one must be carefull to choose a PostScript one. Usualy, font.otf is a postscript one, and

Re: [Groff] Links in PS/PDF files

2010-09-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Is it possible to generate hyperlinks with groff that work in pdf > files (via ps2pdf or a similar mechanism)? .URL appears to only work > with -Thtml. Read the pdfroff(1) man page. Werner

Re: [Groff] Links in PS/PDF files

2010-09-03 Thread Keith Marshall
On Friday 03 September 2010 06:45:10 Taru Karttunen wrote: > Hello > > Is it possible to generate hyperlinks with groff that work in pdf Yes. > files (via ps2pdf or a similar mechanism)? .URL appears to only work > with -Thtml. > > Any hints on how to do this? e.g. gpresent seems to be able to do