Re: [Groff] modern xman?

2012-03-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Graham Smith wrote: > I do not know if Gnome has any equivalent. It seems to have a man: schema, e.g. gnome-open man:ls xdg-open 'man:sleep(3)' However, still no linking and the rendering turns `alarm(2)' into `alarm (2)'. There's also gnome-open info:groff Seperately, have m

Re: [Groff] modern xman?

2012-03-11 Thread walter harms
Am 11.03.2012 01:03, schrieb James K. Lowden: > Like everyone else, I normally use nroff and man(1) to view manpages. > Sometimes I whimsically use xman or tkman. > > It occurs to me that I'm using a bitmapped display on a 3,300 MHz > processor with quite a few fonts installed. I could benefi

Re: [Groff] does gropdf support Type 42 fonts

2012-03-11 Thread Deri James
On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 14:05:22 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Deri, > > > according to the gropdf man page, Type 42 fonts are supported. > However, if I use one, I get the fatal message > > foo: Font file 'bar.t42' must be an Adobe type 1 font file > > > Werner Hi Werner, The man page is wr

Re: [Groff] gropdf issues

2012-03-11 Thread Deri James
On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 13:42:53 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Deri, > > > gropdf uses the `*' character in the `download' file. This not > documented and I ask you to add it. > > Another question is how to easily update an installed `download' file > at all. For example, if I upgrade from ghostscri

Re: [Groff] editing chinese?

2012-03-11 Thread Deri James
On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 14:36:37 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > groff's PDF output device > doesn't work; I suspect a bug (or it isn't implemented yet). This was due to the current gropdf not handling glyphs above 255. I now have a version which remaps glyphs to unused characters below 255, so your exam

Re: [Groff] editing chinese?

2012-03-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Deri, > ...so your example now works fine with -T pdf. The pdf produced is > huge though, I really must make myself do the font subsetting code. Out of interest, does `ps2pdf huge.pdf new.pdf' result in a smaller file with the font subsetting done for you? Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [Groff] [groff] modern xman?

2012-03-11 Thread James K. Lowden
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:31:13 -0500 Doug McIlroy wrote: > > if only there were a viewer designed for dealing with, oh, dvi or > > ps. > Unless I've missed the point entirely, why not a trivial > shell script using, say, gv? That works up to a point. In the general case, the script would have to

Re: [Groff] modern xman?

2012-03-11 Thread James K. Lowden
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:01:17 + Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Producing PDF is easy enough, > > man -Tps 3 sleep | ps2pdf - sleep.3.pdf > > but the PDFs don't link either. > > Online sites do provide HTML man pages with linking, e.g. > http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/en/man3/sleep.3

Re: [Groff] editing chinese?

2012-03-11 Thread Deri James
On Sunday 11 Mar 2012 15:02:55 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > ...so your example now works fine with -T pdf. The pdf produced is > > huge though, I really must make myself do the font subsetting code. > > Out of interest, does `ps2pdf huge.pdf new.pdf' result in a smaller file > with the

Re: [Groff] editing chinese?

2012-03-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> 4. Call the attached script `make-tmac' to generate a macro file. >>It defines a single command to activate the CJK font; use this >>instead of issuing a `\f[...]' command. > > I did not find that script in your mail. Oops. Now attached. >> 你 家 有 几 口 人 ? > > Excuse me, is this "Chi