Hello Henry, Henry McGilton <gr...@trilithon.com> wrote: > I have been reading and re-reading the Heirloom instructions for > adding fonts to the collection. > > Given that dpost is (apparently) a reflection of a LaserWriter II, > should I add new fonts to dpost, or should I create some new > device of my own?
Have you also read the file "troff/troff.d/font/README"? It is the unchanged SunOS DWB 2 "lp/filter/postscript/font/README" file which tries to explain how to add a new font. For Heirloom this is relevant for font descriptions in (source) directory "troff/troff.d/font/devpost" which are used with troff option "-Tpost". Up to now I had only used additional fonts in TTF or OTF format, maybe someone else on the list had already added fonts to DWB? > When I follow the instructions to determine the InternalName(s) > for the dpost collection, I see there are duplications, leading me to > question whether the InternalName is actually required at all. If in doubt I would just choose a new number (just to eliminate one error source). > The fonts I am adding are the Optima Family. I am re-creating a > device from way back in DWB 2 days, where I had built a device > with Palatino, Optima, and Courier as the main performers, plus > Symbol (S and SS), Z1 and Z2 for the bottom half and top half > of Zapf Dingbats, and then ZI (Zapf Chancery Medium Italic). Except Optima these fonts are already available with -Tpost. But as google says these fonts are also available for free as TTF? In this case simply loading them with .fp would be the easiest way. > Back then, old ditroff could not deal with character codes greater > than 127. SunOS DWB had also used character codes up to 255 for special characters. But maybe they had been introduced later. > For example, I see that the charset in Palatino does not have an > entry for the octothorpe (#) character. Why is this? Does it matter > if I leave it there in my Optima fonts, or should I make my Optima > charset(s) match the template of Palatino from dpost? ... maybe because this is also the comment character in these files ;) I would leave it in the Optima description. Regards, Carsten
