Re: [Groff] Still No Luck Accessing Characters From Zapf Dingbats (Or Any Other Strange Font)

2016-05-08 Thread Henry McGilton
Many Thanks for the various sources of advice. Especially Werner and Ralph for spotting the ‘wrong’ quote signs. I recently had to install a new hard drive on my laptop, and while they were at it, I asked them to ‘upgrade’ to El Capitan, and of course all the default settings that are intended

[Groff] Still No Luck Accessing Characters From Zapf Dingbats (Or Any Other Strange Font)

2016-05-06 Thread Henry McGilton
Greetings, lately I decided to try, try, try again to obtain characters from the Zapf Dingbats font. The documentation GROFF_DIFF(7) suggests that I should be able to inject a sequence to the effect:\f(ZD\N’37’(seems plausible) When I inject that sequence, I get the British S

[Groff] psfig With groff

2016-04-04 Thread Henry McGilton
I’m trying to determine whether or not psfig can be used with groff. Pretty much all of the back and forth about groff is a decade old, and doesn’t really answer the simple question of whether groff supports psfig. I see that James Clark mentions that psfig is not being supported going forward,

[Groff] [Heirloom] Adding Fonts To Heirloom

2015-12-30 Thread Henry McGilton
I have been reading and re-reading the Heirloom instructions for adding fonts to the collection. Given that dpost is (apparently) a reflection of a LaserWriter II, should I add new fonts to dpost, or should I create some new device of my own? There is a snippet of information in the instruction

[Groff] Unable To Access Glyphs From Zapf Dingbats

2015-12-07 Thread Henry McGilton
I have on and off been using both the Heirloom Project and now the Mac OS X Darwin Groff suite of tools. Pretty much everything works fine except for one thing: I have been completely unable to access glyphs from the Zapf Dingbats font. All I get is a rectangular box that is an indicator that