devps/pdf, composite characters, and overstriking

2021-05-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, I've contrived a solution to getting our gpinyin(1) man page to render both to UTF-8 terminals and to PostScript and PDF. One might assume that the problem was CJK characters, but it was not; none are in the page. The problem is with (relatively) ordinary accented Latin characters. Th

Re: Got those old bad kerning blues

2021-05-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2021-05-08T22:05:32-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 5/8/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Is the kerning information for the Times family incorrect? > > Not so much incorrect as nonexistent, a problem that isn't specific to > the Times family. It's an effect of groff's inability to specify ker

Re: Got those old bad kerning blues

2021-05-08 Thread Dave Kemper
On 5/8/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Is the kerning information for the Times family incorrect? Not so much incorrect as nonexistent, a problem that isn't specific to the Times family. It's an effect of groff's inability to specify kern pairs between characters of different fonts (either in f

Re: Got those old bad kerning blues

2021-05-08 Thread Dale Snell
On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 6:40 PM G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I don't like the way the roman \[lq] is kerned with > the bold \[rs] in the attached example, produced with > "groff -Tpdf". > > Who do I complain to? Er, that is, where should > I look for the source of the problem? Is

Got those old bad kerning blues

2021-05-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, I don't like the way the roman \[lq] is kerned with the bold \[rs] in the attached example, produced with "groff -Tpdf". Who do I complain to? Er, that is, where should I look for the source of the problem? Is the kerning information for the Times family incorrect? Is my PDF viewer (