Accent mystery

2024-02-19 Thread Robert Goulding via
I have been trying to figure this out all morning! I have a handout with the word "kataskeuê" in it. Every time I try to compile it (groff -Tpdf -k -ms) I get the warning: warning: special character 'u0053_0326' not defined (Same if I go the ps2pdf route) Try and compile this minimal file .LP ka

Re: Accent mystery

2024-02-19 Thread Robert Goulding via
To answer my own question: It seems that preconv is not guessing the correct encoding from the file with a single word in it. If I specify -K utf-8 everything works OK. preconv -v reports: GNU preconv (groff) version 1.23.0 with iconv support and with uchardet support Is this an expected shortco

Re: Accent mystery

2024-02-19 Thread Robert Goulding via
A, thank you so much (I needed to RTFM!) - R. On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 12:44 PM G. Branden Robinson < g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > At 2024-02-19T12:40:16-0500, Robert Goulding via wrote: > > To answer my own question: It seems that precon

Re: Computer Modern Font

2023-06-07 Thread Robert Goulding via
I get a whole lot of errors of this type: troff:/usr/local/share/groff/site-font/devpdf/CMUSerifR:13: error: font description file name 'CMUSerifR' does not match 'name' argument 'cmunrm' troff:/home/rdgoulding/.tmac/cmu.tmac:2: error: cannot load font 'CMUSerifR' for mounting troff:/usr/local/sha

Re: [TUHS] Re: GNU eqn clarifications and reforms

2023-06-16 Thread Robert Goulding via
Many years ago,as a graduate student in the history of science, I read an early-modern medical text that dealt with the method of "ſucking on ſores," which caused me chortle out loud in the British Library Robert Goulding Sent from my phone On Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 1:07 AM G. Branden Robinson <

Re: a morsel of groff 1.23.0 status

2023-07-05 Thread Robert Goulding via
As an ordinary user and lurker on this list, it has been extraordinary to watch this release come together. Congratulations! Robert Goulding Sent from my phone On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 10:36 PM Steve Izma wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 07:31:50PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > > Subject: Re: a morse

Re: Help wanted: just run gxditview on your system and click

2023-07-27 Thread Robert Goulding via
I tried to do this, but gxditview was not on my system (Crostini on a Chromebook = Debian 11 (bullseye). So I compiled again from source, making sure --with-x was added to configure -- but although the configure output said that x libraries were found, gxditview was not built. One other little gl

Re: Help wanted: just run gxditview on your system and click

2023-07-27 Thread Robert Goulding via
OK, I managed to compile gxditview. Left-clicking brings up the menu; none of the items are selectable. And I figured out the "ln -s" problem. I downloaded the tarball into my Downloads folder, which is a mounted filesystem from the point of view of the Linux container. And "ln -s" always fails in