On Fri, Mar 28, 2014, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 3/27/14, Peter Schaffter <pe...@schaffter.ca> wrote: > > Have you checked out the 'install-font.sh' script at > > > > http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-05.html#install-font > > > > Takes about two seconds to install a font. > > I've used this script and I agree it's great. But it's not part of groff, > not distributed with groff, and as far as I can find, not mentioned > in groff documentation anywhere. It's a solution to a general groff > problem that's only mentioned in mom documentation. Really, it--or > something with similar functionality--should be distributed with groff > unless/until groff can handle other font formats natively.
I'm inclined to agree. It would certainly be helpful to users until support for non-Type1 fonts is implemented. The font conversion isn't particularly sophisticated, just 'fontforge' to convert to .pfa then 'afmtodit' with a minimal set of options to create the groff font. That can be improved, I'm sure, if anyone has ideas. Also, it's #!/bin/bash, not #!/bin/sh. It should probably be Perl-ized if it's to be added to groff. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
