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
> 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,
they are defined with drawing
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.
> 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.
Werner
Hi,
James Cloos wrote:
> The problem seems to be the use of CURLY BRACKET EXTENSION between
> SQUARE BRACKET UPPER CORNER and SQUARE BRACKET LOWER CORNER glyphs.
> Ie, \(bv is not the correct extension (empirically) to use between the
> \(lc \(lf and \(rc \(rf pairs.
I haven't paid attention thus
> "AGR" == Ali Gholami Rudi writes:
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.
AGR> Bad ... large brackets lc, lf, rc, rf,
AGR> \b'\(lc\(bv\(lf' \b'\(rc\(bv\(rf'
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
