Henry McGilton <appledevelo...@trilithon.com> wrote: > I probably sound like a complete dummkopf in this illustrious group, but I > have tried and > failed with both Heirloom and regular groff.
ZD does work with Heirloom troff (and with DWB3.3 too), as I did already wrote in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2015-12/msg00003.html. It does work with default -Tps when loading an e.g. TTF font or it does work directly with -Tpost: echo "\f(ZD\N'37'"|troff -Tpost|dpost >/tmp/h.ps The same with DWB3.3: echo "\f(ZD\N'37'"|troff|dpost >/tmp/d.ps Both show the telephone symbol. > I must add that I maintained the DWB 2.0 suite of tools (including some I > wrote myself) at > Sun Microsystems and other venues from around 1984 through about 2007, at > which > point Apple decided in their Infinite Wisdom to break most of the DWB 2.0 > suite forever. > > During that time, I had no problems displaying ZD (we had a hack that > created two fonts > named Z1 and Z2, so that the characters from 161 through 254 could be > accessed in > using 7-bit ASCII character codes). > > So if there is anyone out there who has an actual document that accesses the > ZD font > and actually displays the desired result, I would very much appreciate > seeing such a > document. As said, Heirloom with -Tpost or DWB3.3 works fine. BTW: I'm not sure that DWB2.0 is really broken *forever*, the Heirloom source code is not very different from DWB2.0 ;) Surely groff works too, I just wanted to correct the statement that traditional troff would not work. --Carsten
