Hi Carsten,
> in troff the Times Roman Bold \(sq is filled solid black. In groff
> there is no difference between any Times Roman font.
Agreed. This does seem to be a bug in groff that needs formerly lodging
somewhere?
> Is there a way to get the standard (UNIX V7) behaviour of a solid
> filled bold \(sq?
For what output devices?
> (I also checked heirloom troff, there bold \(sq is as expected.)
Perhaps due to being derived from V7's source.
> Or is there any other special character which draws a solid filled
> square? (At the moment I use a scaled draw function.)
It seems -Tps draws \(sq whereas -Tutf8 uses U+25A1. The neighbouring
U+25A0 is filled so \[u25A0] might do you, depending on the output
device.
$ printf '.pl 1v\n%s\n' 'a\(sqba\[u25A0]b' | groff -Tutf8
a□ba■b
$
$ printf '.pl 1v\n%s\n' 'a\(sqba\[u25A0]b' | groff -Tutf8 |
> iconv -t ucs-2le | hexdump -x
0000000 0061 25a1 0062 0061 25a0 0062 000a
000000e
$
Cheers, Ralph.
