On Tuesday, 12 August 2025 09:12:09 BST Norwid Behrnd wrote: > @Marcus > > > mostly out of curiosity, when writing phonetics like "[ˈdʒiːrɒf]" the > > console shows > Not my turf, yet -- because of TIPA[1] for pdfLaTeX -- wouldn't this require > a (supplementary) font to groff's default Times/T, or one which is > dedicated to the IPA?[2] Second observation, running `man groff_char` > doesn't yield a dedicated section either. > > Greetings, > Norwid
Norwid is correct, you need to install a font with the glyphs for the characters you are using. You will probably have a system font which has the desired glyphs. Try:- fc-list ':charset=02C8' Which will show you which of your system fonts contain a glyph for that particular character. You could then install that font file for groff to use using Peter Schaffter's install-font.sh script. I use googles Tinos family of fonts which have a fairly good range of glyphs. As well as the glyphs in the 'IPA Extensions' block, you need the 'Spacing Modifier Letters' for the MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE and MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON you used. I don't know whether the Tinos font contains all the glyphs you need for phonetic work, so I have extracted the relevant pages from my catalogue of the Tinos-Regular font. Cheers Deri
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