Dear Werner,
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
The main problem (for me) is that I can not find a standard document
with font metrics information.
What exactly do you mean with this sentence?
Some authoritative text saying something like
"any PS 2/3 printer/implementation should hav
Dear Werner,
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
until now noone has reported problems w.r.t. missing characters in the
standard PS fonts. On the other hand, there are probably just a
handful Turkish groff users which use the original PS Adobe fonts
together with groff.
What about West
Dear Werner,
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Actually, I don't consider the whole issue as very urgently because
until now noone has reported problems w.r.t. missing characters in the
standard PS fonts. On the other hand, there are probably just a
handful Turkish groff users which us
> Does any of the fonts in the standard distributions of groff
> contain characters depicting the standard male and female
> symbols? (The circle with the oblique arrow above, and the
> circle with the cross below.)
> Inquiring minds would like to know.
As far as I know, there aren't any in the
Dear Werner,
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
one more reason for you to consider regenerating fonts for devps.
CR font now has Idot.
This is a very good argument I wasn't aware of. Are there newer AFM
files for the other fonts too?
A good question.
On one hand, there are 35 URW P
> "Werner" == Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Werner> I assume that some `local' UniqueID is appropriate.
These days Adobe recommends not using UniqueID in fonts. There are
very few printers left in service that can actually benefit if each
font has an UniqueID. It would be best
Peter Schaffter wrote:
---End recipe for getting both headers and footers---
You should probably copy that to the Groff Wiki
I'm interested to know how you intend to use the combo of headers
and footers. If your situation is a common one, I may macro-ize the
above to save other users t
Dear Werner,
concerning groff-special PS fonts FreeEuro, Symbol-Slanted and
ZapfDingbats-Reverse.
1) Why afm files are not installed in devps folder?
If someone uses the fonts, having corresponding afms
around would be nice.
2) pfa files for SS and ZDR lack %%EndComments comment,
men
I've just reread the mail w.r.t. glyph classes, and I think the
following simplified version will do.
classes
Alike = A :A 'A `A ... ;
CJKpunct = u3000-u303F;
Hiragana = u3040-u309F;
...
CJK = @CJKpunct @Hiragana ... ;
properties
@CJK width 24
...
@Alike kern
> > Again, I've no idea :-) The code snippet was taken from ps.tmac,
> > without analyzing it in detail. I've simply forgotten how it
> > works.
>
> The answer here is (or should be) that if you place an accent over a
> "skew" character (e.g. italic), you need to offset it slightly to
> the right
On 06-Mar-06 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> > Again, I've no idea :-) The code snippet was taken from ps.tmac,
>> > without analyzing it in detail. I've simply forgotten how it
>> > works.
>>
>> The answer here is (or should be) that if you place an accent over a
>> "skew" character (e.g. italic), you
hi everybody,
I noted the following. when defining
.ds Macasek "Mac\['a]\o'\[ah]s'ek
.ds macasek "Mac\['a]\[vs]ek
.DS
\*[Macasek]
\*[macasek]
.DE
one gets an optically pleasing 'scaron' (\[vs] (second line), but a
seemingly slightly off-center (to the left) 'caron' (\[ah]) if you
overstrike
> >> The groff_ms manpage doesn't describe the header & footer macros
> >> (HT, PT, BT). I've attached a patch containing brief
> >> descriptions of each.
> >
> > Thanks, applied. Please do the same for groff.texinfo.
>
> Here's the patch.
Not yet :-)
Werner
> The main problem (for me) is that I can not find a standard document
> with font metrics information.
What exactly do you mean with this sentence?
> On the other hand, I do not know what is the "typical" state of core
> fonts support? Can we count on 315 glyphs being present by default?
> Are
On 07-Mar-06 Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
> hi everybody,
>
> I noted the following. when defining
>
>
> .ds Macasek "Mac\['a]\o'\[ah]s'ek
> .ds macasek "Mac\['a]\[vs]ek
> .DS
> \*[Macasek]
> \*[macasek]
> .DE
>
>
> one gets an optically pleasing 'scaron' (\[vs] (second line), but a
> seemingly
> > ---Recipe for getting both headers and footers; must come before
> > START---
>
>
> Thanks very much. It's just what I'm looking for.
Something again for www.groff-wiki.info :-)
Werner
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> concerning groff-special PS fonts FreeEuro, Symbol-Slanted and
> ZapfDingbats-Reverse.
>
> 1) Why afm files are not installed in devps folder?
> If someone uses the fonts, having corresponding afms around
> would be nice.
Patches, please.
> 2) pfa files for SS and ZDR lack %%EndComme
On 2006.03.06 15:54 Peter Schaffter wrote:
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006, Robert Thorsby wrote:
> I have started playing with mom and like her. Is there any
> way to use mom with **both** headers and footers in the
> one document? If so, can anyone point me in the right
> direction.
By default, no.
Ther
Werner Lemberg wrote, quoting Larry Kollar:
>> [...] >pdfmark.pdf
>> AFPL Ghostscript 8.53: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>
>> MacOSX 10.4.5, configure line is "./configure --prefix=/usr
>> --mandir=/usr/ share/man" (adding "CXX=g++2" is not required for
>> 10.4.x) if that makes a difference.
I have started playing with mom and like her. Is there any way to use
mom with **both** headers and footers in the one document? If so, can
anyone point me in the right direction.
TIA,
Robert Thorsby
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> >> Are there Courier/Helvetica/Times versions with CC lines?
> >
> > Yes. All files have `CC' lines.
>
> Can you check the actual font files (pfb/pfa) for presence of glyphs
> described in CC lines? For if the real composed glyphs are not
> there, characters with both C and CC lines are not to
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