On Wednesday, 8 November 2023 07:29:49 GMT Gustavo Calvo wrote: > Hi! Is there a way to use character U+2112 in my document? So far I have > tried `\[u2112]`, which does seem to work for characters like `\[u0394]` > that are listed in the groff_char manual.
Hi Gustavo, If you are going for terminal output, Branden has dealt with that. If you want PDF or Postscript output, I'm afraid you will have to do a bit of work. The problem is that the "Laplace transform" (U+2112) character is not present in groff's symbol font, so you need to install a suitable font to supply the glyph. On my system I found the glyph in a font:- /usr/share/fonts/opensymbol/opens___.ttf Since it is a truetype font I had to convert it to a type 1 font with fontforge and then run afmtodit to create a groff font file called OS. You may be able to use the install-font.sh script available at:- http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-06.html Although the font should be installed as a symbol font rather than a text font and I'm not sure if the script handles that yet. After installation this works:- printf ".special OS\n\s'24'ℒ"|groff -k -ms -Tpdf > Laplace.pdf The result is attached. If you prefer I can send you the resulting fonts, plus instructions. Cheers Deri
Laplace.pdf
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