Re: [groff] [Neatroff] arabic typesetting

Hello, Pierre-Jean wrote: > kaddour kardio wrote: > > > Hi i am quiet a newbie in utroff/neatroff typesetting systems, i use LaTeX > > daily in my archlinux based laptop. > > Do Farsi settings sufficient to typeset arabic texts( via init_fa), or > > should i create a init_ar config file?. > >

Re: [Groff] Proper Small Caps.

Ralph Corderoy wrote: > http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem > complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps > designed by the designer. Thought it might be of interest given troff's > long-time S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0, especially used in the

Re: [Groff] UTF-8/Unicode Implementation, Paragraph-at-once Formatting and Right to Left Text

Hello Steffen, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > |I recently modified neatroff to support many of the advanced font > |features present in OpenType fonts. Neatmkfn (the program which > |generates neatroff font descriptors, like Groff's afmtodit) can now > |generate lines that define substitution and

Re: [Groff] UTF-8/Unicode Implementation, Paragraph-at-once Formatting and Right to Left Text

Hello, Carsten Kunze wrote: > > Just wanted to bring this to the attention of the list. > > > > Neatroff - a C implementation of Troff. > Not really new news: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2013-07/msg1.html I recently modified neatroff to support many of the advanced font featu

Re: [Groff] Issue with Groff (Right-to-left support)

(Ted Harding) wrote: > On 25-Jun-2014 10:16:13 Russell Hyer wrote: > > I am writing to ask whether anyone on this list knows about any > > built in right-to-left support for Groff (without having to resort > > to hacks like using sed to reverse streams of characters)[1]. > > One of the reasons I m

Re: [Groff] Groff Digest, Vol 106, Issue 3

Robert Marks wrote: > So, how is neatroff pronounced? > Neet-roff? Nia-troff? Nia-T-roff? I prefer neet-roff; it is easier to pronounce and underlines that the word neatroff is actually neat + troff. Ali

Re: [Groff] Announcing Neatroff

Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: > > > * Assumes UTF-8 encoding > > > * Named environments > > > * Long macro, register and environment names > > > * Color support > > > * Font pairwise kerning and arbitrary font ligatures > > > * Text direction for right-to-left languages > > > > > > Links: > > > * A

[Groff] Announcing Neatroff

Hello, Neatroff is a new troff implementation in C programming language and under the Modified BSD Licence. Although it does not implement most of the extensions available in Groff or Heirloom troff, it does implement a few of their convenient features: * Assumes UTF-8 encoding * Named environme

Re: [Groff] Misplaced glyphs

Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > But what about \(rn and \(br? The glyphs don't fit well but in > > groff they do. See the table and text box in my previous mail to > > see how the original troff renders it. How does groff do it? > > In groff, \[ul], \[rn], and \[br] are not real characters. Instead

Re: [Groff] Misplaced glyphs

Hi Werner, > > When I tried this, using groff-1.21 as packaged by gentoo, I got > > reasonable output for -Tps and -Tdvi for most of the text. > > > > Only the lc, lf, rc, rf chunk had bad alignment. > > You might read the section `brackets' in the `groff_char' man page. Thanks for the pointer.

[Groff] Misplaced glyphs

Hi, Unfortunately some of the glyphs in ghostscript symbol font are misplaced, which cause bad table rendering, among other things, in the original troff and its descendants; the same behavior can be observed in solaris troff, heirloom troff, and plan9 troff with little differences. See the attac

[Groff] right-to-left patch for plan9 troff

Hi, I just wrote a patch to add right-to-left languages support to plan9 troff. The patch and the instructions are available here: http://litcave.berlios.de/troff.htm This is not about groff but to best of my knowledge this list is the only alive troff list, so I'm sending it here. I ho