Another hidden gem of groff's treasure chest:
It is possible to control the width of \| and \^ on a per-font basis.
If the font definition file of the current font contains entries for
`\|' and `\^', respectively, the specified widths are used instead of
the default values. [Normally, a font def
I am running Ubuntu Linux 7.10. man has worked fine until I installed
the latest (current) groff. The new groff seems to work fine but man
doesn't anymore. Now when I try 'man ls' I get:
groff: can't find `DESC' file
groff:fatal error: invalid device `utf8'
Manual page ls(1) line
Hi Blake,
> I am running Ubuntu Linux 7.10. man has worked fine until I installed
> the latest (current) groff. The new groff seems to work fine but man
> doesn't anymore. Now when I try 'man ls' I get:
>
> groff: can't find `DESC' file
> groff:fatal error: invalid device `utf8'
>
> Anyway, direct font support is more favorite than the converted
> ones, similiar is xelatex vs cjkutf8.
BTW, my CJK package will soon support XeLaTeX.
Werner
