> Can these characters be made into new glyphs? `groff_char.7' is > already quite good for unusual characters - and these are mostly > available for `-Tutf8'. If someone could tell me, how to append new > glyphs, I would try to implement this.
It's not clear to me what you mean with `append', please explain. Note that (missing) pinyin characters don't belong into groff_char.7 – this manpage is intended to document all named groff symbols. Characters not in this man page can be accessed with the standard \[u...] notation, provided the output font contains glyphs for those characters. If you want to create artificial glyphs using `.char' and friends for -Tps or -Tdvi, please create a separate macro package so that pinyin support can be loaded with `-mpinyin' or something similar. For more ideas regarding pinyin support you might look up `pinyin.sty', part of my CJK package for LaTeX. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=cjk.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/pinyin.txt;hb=HEAD http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=cjk.git;a=blob_plain;f=texinput/pinyin.sty;hb=HEAD Werner
