Greetings. I've verfied that the problem discussed in the following forwarded email exists. -Tps has no trouble finding macron characters composed in vim; -Tpdf does. Deri, I think this is your bailiwick. :)
----- Forwarded message ----- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 15:07:35 -0400 To: pe...@schaffter.ca From: Subject: groff and mom - macrons in pdfs Greetings good Sir and thank you for MOM! I'm writing today because I cannot seem to overcome an issue where I am unable to get macrons over vowels to display correctly in the resulting pdfs. I am on Arch linux using vim as my text editor. Groff version 1.22.3-7 is installed. I use Atril to display pdfs. I can write in Libreoffice Writer and enter the macron-vowels thru the charcter selector, then export to pdf and the characters display correctly so I have fonts installed sufficient to display the macron characters. I can enter the macron-vowels in vim using the Ctrl-K diagraph keybindings and they display correctly in the terminal. If I export the .mom file to ps the result, whilst ugly, displays the macron-vowels correctly, so I believe somewhere in groff something is going wrong. What I am getting in the pdf is the Capital A with strange markings in place of the i or o with macron intended. I found online a groff macro .AM which claims to be able to produce macron characters, but I do not see how to incorporate this with mom. I also tried \[i-] style with no luck. I get "can't find special character" errors with this method. Trying e.g. \[34] and \[de] works, but the macron does not seem to work. Please tell me, is this missing funcionality or am I missing something in the documentation on how to produce macron-vowels with mom? I thank you again for all the hard work you have done to create mom - I do not want to have to use Libreoffice Writer or another piece of software. I love mom, but need to learn how to overcome obstacles such as this one. Steve Philipp ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
