At 2025-06-30T09:03:38-0400, James Cloos wrote:
> might the 314 char afm file be from urw (by was of gs) rather than
> from adobe?

Nope, I had just confused the "old" AFMs with the "new" ones.

It turns out our grops(1) man page is wrong:

Old fonts
     groff versions 1.19.2 and earlier contained descriptions of a
     slightly different set of the base 35 PostScript level 2 fonts
     defined by Adobe.  The older set has 229 glyphs and a larger set of
     kerning pairs; the newer one has 314 glyphs, including the Euro
     sign.  For backward compatibility, these old font descriptions are
     also installed in the /home/branden/groff-HEAD/share/groff/1.23.0/
     oldfont/devps directory.

It turns out that the older set has more glyphs _and_ more kerning
pairs.

No idea why.

In any case, this man page needs fixing.  So I'll fix it.

Regards,
Branden

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