Re: uppercase german umlaut

2024-02-05 Thread Dave Kemper
On 2/5/24, hoh...@posteo.de wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 01:13:45 -0600 > Dave Kemper wrote: > >> In the message to which I was replying, you were speaking of the >> sequence of bytes that were part of the input to gpic; in this realm, >> ECMA-48 is irrelevant. And in any case, the 0x84 byte in q

Re: [PATCH v3] [grotty]: Use terminfo.

2024-02-05 Thread Lennart Jablonka
Quoth G. Branden Robinson: ACK. I've gotten a bit sidetracked learning more about terminfo and ncurses...and a dreaded, predictable thing happened. I found the existing ncurses documentation frustrating and started rewriting it. (This is how groff got stuck with me.) https://lists.gnu.org/arc

Re: Configuring groff 1.23.0 on Fedora 39 fails to find the URW base 35 fonts

2024-02-05 Thread T . Kurt Bond
On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:19:41 -0500, Deri wrote: > Have you tried running configure with the flag:- > > --with-urw-fonts-dir=/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35 As was mentioned in my original message to the list, I did use that option to successfully configure groff which lead to a successful build and

Re: Configuring groff 1.23.0 on Fedora 39 fails to find the URW base 35 fonts

2024-02-05 Thread Deri
On Monday, 5 February 2024 16:51:29 GMT T. Kurt Bond wrote: > On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 04:52:31 -0500, > > "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > > Do any of the following directories exist on Fedora 39 and contain .afm > > files alongside the fonts proper? > > > > _list_paths="\ > > > > /usr/share

Re: .bp not working in groff 1.23.0 when it worked fine in 1.22.4

2024-02-05 Thread Dave Kemper
On 2/5/24, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > As far as I know, groff has never extended AT&T troff syntax in _this_ > respect. > > The argument count to requests (unlike macros) is seemingly sacrosanct. Groff extended the .ss request by adding an optional second parameter where AT&T's took only one.

Re: Configuring groff 1.23.0 on Fedora 39 fails to find the URW base 35 fonts

2024-02-05 Thread T . Kurt Bond
On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 04:52:31 -0500, "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > Do any of the following directories exist on Fedora 39 and contain .afm > files alongside the fonts proper? > > _list_paths="\ > /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/ \ > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/ \ > /usr/share/font

Re: .bp not working in groff 1.23.0 when it worked fine in 1.22.4

2024-02-05 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-01-23T22:13:26-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 1/23/24, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2024-01-23T20:52:34-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > >> However, .bp arguably shouldn't have been affected by the change, > >> since it probably wasn't subject to the same historical ambiguity. > > > > I agre

Re: More on Tibetan, or rather: ligatures

2024-02-05 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-01-24T19:39:25-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 1/22/24, Oliver Corff wrote: > > yes, I did have a look at that section of the groff documentation, > > and I must confess that I read the text as non-exhaustive, meaning > > the five specific ligatures are built-in, with the option to > > incre