On 6/26/21, Robert Goulding <robert.d.gouldin...@nd.edu> wrote: > Dear Dave: I guess I thought that the Postscript fonts that come with > Ghostscript would already contain that glyph.
They may, but groff doesn't automatically know about all the fonts the other parts of the system have access to. Groff needs a font file (which among other things contains the list of characters) installed in a place it knows about: by default (on most Linux systems) /usr/share/groff/current/font, /usr/share/groff/site-font, or a location pointed to by the $GROFF_FONT_PATH environment variable. For instance, you can see that the default groff font, TR, has an ellipsis character (U+2026) defined: fgrep u2026 /usr/share/groff/current/font/devps/TR But grepping for 25B3 instead shows that it's not part of groff's TR character set. Peter Schaffter has written a very useful script (http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-06.html#install-font) to smoothly automate the process of installing fonts for groff.
