Re: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts

Hi Oliver, > message by GhostScript: Can't embed the complete font DFSongStd as it is > too large, embedding a subset > PostScript provides a dedicated resource-type for exactly this: a CID-keyed font (PLRM § 5.11

Re: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts

Hi Oliver, At 2023-04-21T20:13:14+0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > thank you very much for your encouraging feedback. I try to moonlight occasionally from my normal gig of gripes and laments. ;-) > Indeed I did neither mention nor note in the example file (multitest.ms > --- I thought the .ms in the

Re: Chinese texts. (Was: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts)

On Saturday, 22 April 2023 11:07:08 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > The problem is probably not ghostscript, current gropdf moans about > > "too many glyphs" when it can't allocate all used to 8 bit code > > points. This too will be addressed in the next version of gropdf, > > which ad

Chinese texts. (Was: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts)

Hi Deri, > The problem is probably not ghostscript, current gropdf moans about > "too many glyphs" when it can't allocate all used to 8 bit code > points. This too will be addressed in the next version of gropdf, > which addresses problems of very large fonts with thousands of > different glyphs.

Re: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts

On Friday, 21 April 2023 19:13:14 BST Oliver Corff wrote: > > In the meantime, I tried to typeset several pages of Chinese, but alas, > there were quite a few blank positions in the text, and I assume that at > the current state the limitations in the number of characters (message > by GhostScript:

Re: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts

Hi Branden, thank you very much for your encouraging feedback. Indeed I did neither mention nor note in the example file (multitest.ms --- I thought the .ms in the file name tells the story) that I use groff_ms(7) as it is really at a sweet spot between simplicity of use and aesthetics of produc

Re: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts

Hi Oliver, At 2023-04-21T14:59:43+0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > I successfully ran Peter's font-install.sh to install Linux Libertine > as a new font. > [...] > The first observation: > > .PP > > .\"fam Libertine > > Орос хэл, монгол үлгэр. Үлэг гүрвэлийн өндөг. > > If I start a new paragraph,

Re: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts

Hi Deri, thank you --- that works like a charm. One problem solved! Makes me even more inclined to install 1.23.0 Best regards, Oliver. On 21/04/2023 16:09, Deri wrote: On Friday, 21 April 2023 13:59:43 BST Oliver Corff wrote: The second observation: .fam Libertine πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν

Re: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts

On Friday, 21 April 2023 13:59:43 BST Oliver Corff wrote: > The second observation: > > .fam Libertine > > πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει. > > > Seems to put the majority of Greek in italics while I was hoping for a > regular font. > Hi Oliver, I believe this was fixed in co

A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts

Dear all, I successfully ran Peter's font-install.sh to install Linux Libertine as a new font. In principle, I am more than satisfied with its output of e.g. Cyrillic characters, including those not used by Russian. That works: .fam Libertine Орос хэл, монгол үлгэр. Үлэг гүрвэлийн өндө