Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-23 Thread Sigfrid Lundberg
Thanks Werner for the script and for the answers! On Mon, 21 May 2007, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > I have tested the new preprocessor with the groff options > > -K and -k > > > > This is all very encouraging. > > Nice to hear that! However, you should upgrade to the current CVS > (from today);

Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> It seems "binmode" is now used for lots more than specifying the > binary mode of a file handle. I think this is the right way to fix > it. Thanks! Werner

Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Werner, > Try the groff2uni perl script below. Note that you will get warnings > like > > Wide character in print at groff2uni.pl line 17, <> line 8. > > Any Perl expert here who can fix that? The good news is it's a long time since I consdered myself that. The bad news is they've gon

Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > that they are all correctly registered in the DESC file under devps, > > This I haven't done. And right so. This isn't necessary. > The special stuff SS S ZD ZDR is registered though. When I think of > it, this is the most likely cause of my problem since SS is > mentioned first here groff

Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I have tested the new preprocessor with the groff options > -K and -k > > This is all very encouraging. Nice to hear that! However, you should upgrade to the current CVS (from today); I've just found a serious bug in subfont handling which made grops sometime insert a character where there sho

RE: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-20 Thread Sigfrid Lundberg
On Sun, 20 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 20-May-07 09:56:15, Sigfrid Lundberg wrote: > > [...] > > I've a manuscript of a book containing medieval greek quotations > > and to format those I installed a subset of kerkis fonts (quoting > > from my download file), namely: > > > > Kerkis-It

Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-20 Thread Sigfrid Lundberg
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Hi Sigfrid, > > > It didn't work at all -- groff tried to take all greek characters from > > the special fonts S and SS. Then I switched font family temporarily > > using \FK .. \F[]. Then I got partial success: All diachritical > > characters come

RE: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-20 Thread Ted Harding
On 20-May-07 09:56:15, Sigfrid Lundberg wrote: > [...] > I've a manuscript of a book containing medieval greek quotations > and to format those I installed a subset of kerkis fonts (quoting > from my download file), namely: > > Kerkis-Italic Kerkis-Italic.pfa > Kerkis Ke

Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Sigfrid, > It didn't work at all -- groff tried to take all greek characters from > the special fonts S and SS. Then I switched font family temporarily > using \FK .. \F[]. Then I got partial success: All diachritical > characters come out as KR, but the remaining are taken from SS > (slanted