[Heirloom] How to embed images?

2020-10-30 Thread Roy Fisher
Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) images can be embedded using the -mpictures macros and the .BP/.EP or .PI macro calls. The process is described in section 23, Picture Inclusion, of the Heirloom User's Manual. dpost does the actual work. Other image formats are not supported, but if the docume

Re: [Heirloom] Using the Symbola font in Heirloom troff

2020-08-05 Thread Roy Fisher via
What happens if Symbola is mounted on a high font position (>10)? .do xflag 3 .fp 11 Symbola Symbola otf I vaguely remember encountering a few oddities with fonts remounted on position 5. > > I tried the following: > > .do xflag 3 > .fp 5 Symbola Symbola otf >

Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff

2019-01-31 Thread Roy Fisher
Hi aksr, On 1/30/19 8:52 PM, aksr wrote: I was wondering, what do you think about Neatroff, what are in your opition its pros and cons? I like the organization, the no-nonsense coding style, and the general avoidance of unnecessary bloat and useless features. It looks like a good platform.

Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff

2019-01-30 Thread Roy Fisher
Hi Pierre-Jean, On 1/29/19 3:38 AM, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote: I was not clear enough, sorry. I meant the document describes a tool able to produce masterpieces of typographic details, not that the document was such a masterpiece. ;) No problem. I was pretty sure that was what you intended b

Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff

2019-01-28 Thread Roy Fisher
Hi Pierre-Jean, On 1/28/19 4:51 AM, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote: It might be worth closing the issue (openning a new one if needed), since seeing it openned made me think the changes were still not applied. Paperwork.. The updated user's manual needs to be reviewed, and there's still a prel

Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff

2019-01-27 Thread Roy Fisher
Hi Pierre-Jean, On 1/27/19 8:43 AM, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote: As far as I remember, on some paragraphs, the inter-word space is not regular, ie too high on some lines, which is not as pretty as it should be. That was years ago, when I was still using heirloom before switching to neatroff. I

Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff

2019-01-25 Thread Roy Fisher
On 1/24/19 12:58 AM, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote: - heirloom paragraph at once adjustment behaves sometimes oddly (and seems buggy). What sort of odd/buggy issues are you seeing with paragraph adjustment? Which version of Heiloom? Roy