Dear All, thank you for your kind support in 2020! Please accept my best wishes for 2021!
Though I do understand that groff and friends do not officially support CJK languages, I came across a Japanese adaptation which was deeply buried in a debian archive. Unfortunately the binaries do not run on my local Fedora box, so I have no chance to understand the scope of Japanese support offered by the patched version. I noticed, however, that both the html and utf8 device of the current groff installations seems to contain character descriptions in \[u....] notation which happen to cover the Japanese kana syllabary. (/usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devutf8/R is such an example; please bear with me that I did not yet upgrade to the most recent groff version). How do I associate the R font description with a real font containing kana characters so that I can produce a PDF target? I had a look at man groff_font but I failed to extract the necessary information. Am I totally mistaken and off the track? Thank you very much for any answer that guides me into the right direction, Oliver.
