# -Tpdf
The command
$ echo file | groff -Tpdf > /tmp/g.pdf
$ okular g.pdf
will only print `le', the `fi' has vanished. That is because the ligature `fi'
is not available in pdf mode.
# -Tps ok, but ps2pdf does not
$ echo file | groff -Tps > /tmp/g.ps
$ gv g.ps
will print `file', so
Hi Ralph,
> > in troff the Times Roman Bold \(sq is filled solid black. In groff
> > there is no difference between any Times Roman font.
>
> Agreed. This does seem to be a bug in groff that needs formerly lodging
> somewhere?
Yes, it's somehow a groff "bug". Could also be named a bug that thi
> "Approximate" in a somewhat ugly sense! To do it properly you
> need to play with vertical positions
I hoped that was self-evident... :-)
> (and possibly slightly with horizontal positions).
>
> .char \[udA] \Z'\[uA]'\v'0.250m'\h'-0.005m'\[dA]\v'-0.250m'
>
> [...] (presumably because the ghost
> \[U2026] prints an ellipsis and an additional space, so \[el] should
> be better for the output. Is \[u ] globally available for
> getting Unicode characters?
Yes and no.
> Moreover I do not understand, what \[u2026] should mean. It looks
> like a Unicode glyph/character, but I could not
Hi Bernd,
> \[U2026] prints an ellipsis and an additional space
I don't see that space here, just U+2026.
$ printf '.pl 1v\n%s\n' 'a\[u2026]b' | groff -Tutf8 |
> iconv -t ucs-2le | hexdump
000 0061 2026 0062 000a
008
$
Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Carsten,
> in troff the Times Roman Bold \(sq is filled solid black. In groff
> there is no difference between any Times Roman font.
Agreed. This does seem to be a bug in groff that needs formerly lodging
somewhere?
> Is there a way to get the standard (UNIX V7) behaviour of a solid
> filled
> Von: "Denis M. Wilson"
>
> The proper use of ellipsis in text is as punctuation, and depending on
> the font may be subject to kerning. So it's use from a symbol font may
> not have all the properties. On the other hand apparently .cflags works
> for symbols from other fonts, eg to declare a se
Thank you Ted for that, I hadn't twigged, and it will of some use.
The proper use of ellipsis in text is as punctuation, and depending on
the font may be subject to kerning. So it's use from a symbol font may
not have all the properties. On the other hand apparently .cflags works
for symbols from
