[groff] fonts & Unicode support (was Re: It'is time to modernise "groff")

2017-11-09 Thread Gour
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 18:39:03 +0100 Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > Here I'd like to ask what has happened in the meantime in regard to > > the groff's features and plans stated in the mission statement like > > Knuth-Plass algorithmy for paragraph-based linebreaks, native > > support for TrueType, Open T

Re: [groff] fonts & Unicode support (was Re: It'is time to modernise "groff")

2017-11-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Gour, > Can one still use/combine character from different 'sets' or one is > limited to vectors covering only 256 characters as handled in the old > codepage/encodings solutions of which I got my fair-share in the past > being doomed to use non-ASCII character set? See preconv(1). It convert

[groff] Fwd: Re: [Groff] Knuth-Plass Algorithm

2017-11-09 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Sorry, hit the wrong button! -- >8 -- >8 -- Forwarded message -- 8< -- 8< -- Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:33:52 +0100 From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: Bertrand Garrigues Cc: Ingo Schwarze Subject: Re: [Groff] Knuth-Plass Algorithm Bertrand Garrigues wrote: .. |Hmm... Bug #40716 "UPGRADE: format a

Re: [groff] Fwd: Re: [Groff] Knuth-Plass Algorithm

2017-11-09 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hello Steffen, On Thu, Nov 09 2017 at 05:01:06 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > .. > |Hmm... Bug #40716 "UPGRADE: format a paragraph as a whole rather than > |line by line" is assigned to me, it's time to publish some of my work... > | > |I've started to work on Kn