[Groff] How to add chinese font for groff?

2007-03-12 Thread Jeff Zhang
The document of grops gives a font installation guide, is it suite for chines font and is it possible to embed chinese font into ps file with grops? May I use the chinese pfb files converted by subfonts.pe from CJK package?

Re: [Groff] How to add chinese font for groff?

2007-03-13 Thread Jeff Zhang
On 3/13/07, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May I use the chinese pfb files converted by subfonts.pe from CJK > package? Yes. However, I have never tried it actually. The idea would be to use groff's fallback mechanism to make it automatically select the subfonts -- this is simila

Re: [Groff] How to add chinese font for groff?

2007-03-13 Thread Jeff Zhang
On 3/13/07, Jeff Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/13/07, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > May I use the chinese pfb files converted by subfonts.pe from CJK > > package? > > Yes. However, I have never tried it actually. The idea would be to

Re: [Groff] How to add chinese font for groff?

2007-03-13 Thread Jeff Zhang
On 3/14/07, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using fontforge to find which chinese glyphs in the pfa file (like > sunex9a.pfa), then just input some of those glyphs will give a > correct ps file. If it can use groff's fallback mechanism, it > should work, however, I don't know how to

Re: [Groff] How to add chinese font for groff?

2007-03-14 Thread Jeff Zhang
On 3/14/07, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try this: > > > > .ds SUNEXT SUNEXT00 \ > > SUNEXT01 \ > > ... \ > > SUNEXTff > > > > .special \*[SUNEXT] > > > > > > Werner > > It works, though it takes longer time to finish than the

Re: [Groff] How to add chinese font for groff?

2007-03-14 Thread Jeff Zhang
On 3/14/07, Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Jeff Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I also tried Heirloom Documentation Tools, it seems just works for > normal otf file not for my generated pfb file to produce utf8 contained > file. This is becau

Re: [Groff] How to add chinese font for groff?

2007-03-14 Thread Jeff Zhang
On 3/14/07, Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Jeff Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've also tested with ttf file (I'm an newbie to troff)like: > > .do xflag 3 > .lc_ctype zh_CN.utf8 > .fp 1 R STXingKai ttf > .fp 0 T STXingkai

Re: [Groff] How to add chinese font for groff?

2007-03-14 Thread Jeff Zhang
On 3/14/07, Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Jeff Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/14/07, Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Jeff Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've also tested with ttf f

Re: [Groff] How to add chinese font for groff?

2007-03-14 Thread Jeff Zhang
On 3/15/07, Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Jeff Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After correct the name, it can produce ps file without error message. > However, it almost can't be converted into pdf by ps2pdf or to view it by > gv, for it

[Groff] questions about "Adding TrueType fonts to groff for PDF documents" on http://www.groff-wiki.info/

2007-03-15 Thread Jeff Zhang
It' says "Users who intend to produce PDF do not need to convert TrueType fonts to other formats." on http://www.port.de/cgi-bin/groff/AddingFonts , which is what I am wanted, so I follow the steps similar to what it said: 1. goto $GROFF=$PREFIX/share/groff/1.19.3/font/devps 2. ttf2afm -u /usr/s

Re: [Groff] questions about "Adding TrueType fonts to groff for PDF documents" on http://www.groff-wiki.info/

2007-03-15 Thread Jeff Zhang
On 3/16/07, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I want to know is it possible in these way and whether or not > ps2pdf can make an cid embeded pdf file from the one produced by > grops? It works for english fonts like budmo.ttf after I changed from gs-esp(8.15) to gs-gpl(8.54), h

Re: [Groff] Why is it...

2007-12-15 Thread Jeff Zhang
On Dec 15, 2007 1:25 AM, Michael Kerpan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...that groff/troff seems to be written off by so many as "obsolete" > and "only useful for man pages", despite the fact that it can do > everything that TeX/LaTeX (seemingly the favored non-WYSIWYG document > processor) can do b

Re: [Groff] Why is it...

2007-12-16 Thread Jeff Zhang
On Dec 16, 2007 5:56 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > at least, groff/troff without CTAN like things and the proper > > ability to handle CJK characters through latex-cjk or xetex methods > > in latex. > > Hehe. It was me who has written the CJK package for LaTeX :-) > > > Admiri

Re: [Groff] Re: OTF fonts

2008-01-15 Thread Jeff Zhang
On Jan 15, 2008 6:25 PM, James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Denis" == Denis M Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Denis> 4b. Or keep the TYPE1 file and put name in devps/download > Denis>(big output!). > > Rather than use the type1 file here I'd use a type42 version of the > or