Re: [Groff] mapping of glyphs to Unicode

> "Bruno" == Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruno> U+27E8..27E9 are MATHEMATICAL LEFT/RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET and Bruno> were introduced in Unicode 3.2. The glyphs are very similar Bruno> (see http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html under Bruno> "Misc. Math Symbols A" and "Miscellane

Re: [Groff] mapping of glyphs to Unicode

> "Bruno" == Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruno> Can you explain more? Symbol fonts have only one 'angleleft' and only one Bruno> 'angleright' glyph. Therefore for the 'devps' device it is irrelevant Bruno> which Unicode code points we use - \(la must map to 'angleleft' and Bruno>

Re: [Groff] Re: groff special PS fonts

> "Werner" == Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Werner> I assume that some `local' UniqueID is appropriate. These days Adobe recommends not using UniqueID in fonts. There are very few printers left in service that can actually benefit if each font has an UniqueID. It would be best

Re: the Courier font family and nroff history

years that the selection of fonts which were included on Apple's laserwriter were chosen by them and not be adobe. Adobe offerred options; apple selected from those options. So blame Jobs for Courier as the monospace family and for Times(12) as the serif family. And for Helvetic

Re: [Groff] MIssion statement

>>>>> "MB" == Mike Bianchi writes: MB> Occasionally I use the hack of extracting the PostScript with MB> pdf2ps(1) and then use ps2pdf12(1) to turn it back into PDF. If you want ghostscript to re-create a pdf, you can pass the pdf directly to ps2pdf. -JimC -

Re: [Groff] MIssion statement

as it been updated since this started? I get c2f7a1b7bd3eac6e764c81855b00dde7f11b7af5. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: [groff] Problems with -Thtml

l at groff 1.22.3. Ie, the pdf and html version look the same. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] Re: OTF fonts

ono DejaVuSansMono.t42 to the download file in the devps directory. Hmmm I see that the grops(1) man page suggests using ttftot42 from: ftp://www.giga.or.at/pub/nih/ttftot42/ which can generate both the type42 file and the afm in one go. -JimC -- James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] Re: OTF fonts

d have two registers, one for choosing the libhnj hyphenation algorithm and a second one to choose the line breaking algorithm. Just to ensure old documents do not reflow unless one asks for the new algos.) -JimC -- James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] groff -mm output something I don't expect

nce (my last compile was of revision 3248), git master libspectre (same as the 0.2.1 release) and ghostscript 8.63 (libspectre links to libgs). -JimC -- James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] Replacing groff with troff?

ould install groff (or perhaps heirloom?) from the ports tree. They only seem to want mdocml to create cat files from mdoc and man src. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] Misplaced glyphs

ORNER glyphs. Ie, \(bv is not the correct extension (empirically) to use between the \(lc \(lf and \(rc \(rf pairs. Everything else, though, looked fine. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] need help with composite glyphs

and looked at /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devps/TR to find the roff name (ao) for the ring glyph.) -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] need help with composite glyphs

llback for the desired glyph. Also, I see that preconv converts ů to \[u016F] and ů to u\[u030A], neither of which fall back to overlaying \u and \ring when needed; and the sequence fails to work even with a font like U-T. (Had more to say, but have to run for a few hours) -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

[Groff] git gc

Using try 2, after git fast-import, du(1) shows: 260444 groff-git/.git/objects/pack after git gc --aggressive, that becomes: 11632 groff-git/.git/objects/pack -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] Back to the future

troff.) The project should be suitable for GSoC. Proper neqn(1) support also would be useful. There should be suitably licensed code available which could be ported for groff. Perhaps from the now gpl2 plan9? Or from heirloom? -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] Mission statement, second draft

cause problems for any pdf reader released in the past decade. Something must have been misconfigured or buggy for it to fail. Does your distribution have recent versions? -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

[Groff] gnuplot

Gnuplot would like an example document showcasing troff+pic, using gnuplot's gpic terminal to generate the pic, for regression testing. Does anyone have one handy? -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] `fi' makes trouble in pdf

>>>>> "RC" == Ralph Corderoy writes: RC> How do you recommend `disassembling' a PDF to inspect its contents? I like mupdfclean from mupdf best. Call it with the -d option. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] `fi' makes trouble in pdf

tions of the default configs. Distributions will catch up eventually. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] Are your gropdf and pdfmom man pages installed?

And does install the two man pages. So this looks fixed in master. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] Are your gropdf and pdfmom man pages installed?

mine what the fix is, and therefore what a useful patch for 1.22.2 would be. DK> It's also not clear to me whether the "git master" you're referring DK> to is the groff git master or a Gentoo one. git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/groff.git -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] Are your gropdf and pdfmom man pages installed?

t added to the ebuild. I update the gentoo bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487276) with a note about that, but do not have enough privs there to reopen it. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6