On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:14:14AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > For Unicode fonts (which ought to be increasingly the norm), the > > proposal to write out all glyph properties in the font file seems > > odd; as far as I understand the point of Bruno's Unicode fonts > > versus enumerated fonts is to avoid the need to write out properties > > in font files which are really properties of the Unicode code > > points. Can these properties not be autogenerated from > > UnicodeData.txt (and others, e.g. EastAsianWidth.txt) and used > > automatically for all Unicode fonts? Glyph classes would then be > > useful for efficient internal storage, but there would be no urgent > > need to represent them in the font files. > > Please bear in mind that groff, similar to TeX, don't store character > information; everything is related to glyphs -- I won't accept a > solution which works for a particular device only. For example, take > a Japanese PS font; you can't safely assume that the font's > `full-width' characters are full-width at all because this gives poor > typographical output.
Hmm, OK, I was unaware of that detail. Thanks. > > (In addition, the Debian patches also create an "ascii8" device, > > which is a curious little hack that effectively passes through > > characters encoded according to the current locale - so if the input > > to ascii8 is ISO-8859-2, then you get ISO-8859-2 output. At > > present, man uses this device for Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, > > Polish, Russian, Slovak, and Turkish. Obviously this device is > > typographically dubious at best, so I'll replace it by use of > > preconv/soelim/whatever and an iconv postprocessing step; > > latin2.tmac and latin5.tmac would work as well but those appear to > > be largely superseded by preconv.) > > latin2.tmac and friends are *not* superseded, you need them for proper > hyphenation. Have a look at my recent answer to a mail called `koi8-r > hyphenation revisited'. Ah, I forgot about hyphenation. Thanks. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
