Re: [groff] Macron characters in pdf files

2018-06-05 Thread Deri
On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 16:37:15 BST Peter Schaffter wrote: > Hi, Deri. > > > The results, i.e. failure, are identical for both gropdf and grops. > > Hmm... Processing your file, macron.trf, with -Tps and -Tpdf > produces results different from yours, namely > > With .ft TR: > > groff -Tps -

[groff] Advice wanted on drawing a file tree with pic

2018-06-05 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, I'm trying to help out another project (quilt) with some non-portability in one of their man pages. Right now they're embedding raw UTF-8 codepoints into text to use line-drawing characters to depict a file hierarchy. This has the unfortunate consequences you might expect for output fo

Re: [groff] Macron characters in pdf files

2018-06-05 Thread Peter Schaffter
Hi, Deri. On Tue, Jun 05, 2018, Deri James wrote: > On Mon 04 Jun 2018 23:21:15 Peter Schaffter wrote: > > > I've verfied that the problem discussed in the following forwarded > > email exists. -Tps has no trouble finding macron characters > > composed in vim; -Tpdf does. Deri, I think this is y

Re: [groff] Macron characters in pdf files

2018-06-05 Thread Deri James
On Mon 04 Jun 2018 23:21:15 Peter Schaffter wrote: > Greetings. > > I've verfied that the problem discussed in the following forwarded > email exists. -Tps has no trouble finding macron characters > composed in vim; -Tpdf does. Deri, I think this is your bailiwick. > > :) > Hi Peter, I'm hav