Five glyphs: a minor PostScript challenge

2022-03-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone could help with completing, for practical purposes, the glyph coverage of the special characters listed in groff_char(7) for the PostScript output device. We're missing only six glyphs. One, the Bell Systems logo, I propose to skip over, and let warnings conti

Re: Equation Label wrongly positioned in indented '-mm' (MM) display

2022-03-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Damian, > But I agree, variations between releases are a pain. > > I must admit that far worse is the change between a working > Ghostscript in CentOS 6.6 which displays nicely on a Gnome desktop and > a Ghostscript in CentOS 7.9 which segfaults just as it trys to bring > the window up. > > At

Re: Five glyphs: a minor PostScript challenge

2022-03-15 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, G. Branden Robinson wrote: A. \[-+]: The minus-plus. We should be able to dynamically generate this from \[+-] by reflecting the latter about a horizontal axis. If the glyph is flipped within its bounding box, I guess the result would need to be vertically shifted to

Re: Five glyphs: a minor PostScript challenge

2022-03-15 Thread John Gardner
> > Does anyone have enough PostScript wizardry to achieve any of this? I do. I'm quite fluent in PostScript programming, and your suspicions about the dynamic glyph generation are correct. I'll have a more s

Re: Five glyphs: a minor PostScript challenge

2022-03-15 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> > A. \[-+]: The minus-plus. We should be able to dynamically generate > > this from \[+-] by reflecting the latter about a horizontal axis. If > > the glyph is flipped within its bounding box, I guess the result > > would need to be vertically shifted to align it on the baseline. > > T

Re: Equation Label wrongly positioned in indented '-mm' (MM) display

2022-03-15 Thread Dave Kemper
On 3/13/22, Damian McGuckin wrote: > If anybody else agrees that there is a problem and that my fix is done > correctly, how do I submit a bug report and the fix. Hi Damian, You can submit a groff bug report by visiting the bug tracker at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff and selecting "

Re: Equation Label wrongly positioned in indented '-mm' (MM) display

2022-03-15 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, Dave Kemper wrote: You can submit a groff bug report by visiting the bug tracker at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff and selecting "Submit new" under the "Bugs" menu. Done - #62190. Let me know if it is done correctly or whether there are better ways to describe

Re: Five glyphs: a minor PostScript challenge

2022-03-15 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> [...] glyph coverage of the special characters listed in > groff_char(7) for the PostScript output device. > As I understand it, the PostScript language has operators or > built-in functions for performing basic transformations like > reflection and skew. Just as a general note, I wanted to p