Re: drawing commands in groff(7) (was: undiagnosed pic error)

2023-06-08 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Jun 08, 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-06-08T18:19:39-0400, Steve Izma wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 03:07:07PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'm pretty sure this anomaly has been discussed on the groff list > > before, but I don't know of any explanation in the doc

Re: drawing commands have no impact on diversion height

2023-06-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Steve, At 2023-06-08T22:18:20-0400, Steve Izma wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out, but I think I have lost track of > the discussions on this list about recent changes to > documentation. The above section looks like it's from the GNU > Troff Manual, but it's not in the version I have, which

Re: drawing commands have no impact on diversion height

2023-06-08 Thread Steve Izma
On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 08:30:53PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Subject: Re: drawing commands have no impact on diversion height > At 2023-06-08T14:29:04-0400, Steve Izma wrote: > > > *But* the ending of the diversion seemed to swallow the EOL of the > > diversion's last output line, or the

Re: drawing commands have no impact on diversion height

2023-06-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Steve, At 2023-06-08T14:29:04-0400, Steve Izma wrote: > I haven't seen any responses to this yet, but it seems pretty > important to me. Thanks for following up on this. How has this never bitten anyone? > As far as I can tell, the height of a diversion is only calculated by > \n[.v] values.

a morsel of groff 1.23.0 status

2023-06-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, I'm happy to report that I've been in touch with our GNU maintainer, Bertrand. He's facing an email backlog, but I think I was able to bring him up to speed. Here is part of what I told him. > The long, detailed version is here: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-06/msg

Re: drawing commands in groff(7) (was: undiagnosed pic error)

2023-06-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Steve, At 2023-06-08T18:19:39-0400, Steve Izma wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 03:07:07PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Subject: drawing commands in groff(7) (was: undiagnosed pic error) > > > \D't n' > > Set line thickness of geometric objects to to n basic units. > >

Re: drawing commands in groff(7) (was: undiagnosed pic error)

2023-06-08 Thread Steve Izma
On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 03:07:07PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Subject: drawing commands in groff(7) (was: undiagnosed pic error) > \D't n' > Set line thickness of geometric objects to to n basic units. A > zero n selects the minimal supported thickness. A negative n

Re: drawing commands have no impact on diversion height

2023-06-08 Thread Steve Izma
On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 01:35:22PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Subject: drawing commands have no impact on diversion height > > I find myself offended by the fact that \D drawing commands update the > diversion width register `dl`, but have no impact on the diversion > height register `dn`

Re: aliasing fonts (was: Computer Modern Font)

2023-06-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-06-08T18:45:20+0100, Deri wrote: > On Thursday, 8 June 2023 17:47:01 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > grops complains about invalid input characters in the pfb files, > > > e.g.: > > > > > > % pdfroff -t -ms -mcmu doc/ms.ms > doc/ms.pdf > > > grops:$GROFF_FONT_PATH/devps/../cm-unicode-

Re: aliasing fonts (was: Computer Modern Font)

2023-06-08 Thread Deri
On Thursday, 8 June 2023 17:47:01 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > grops complains about invalid input characters in the pfb files, e.g.: > > > > % pdfroff -t -ms -mcmu doc/ms.ms > doc/ms.pdf > > grops:$GROFF_FONT_PATH/devps/../cm-unicode-0.7.0/cmunbi.pfb > > (doc/ms.ms):3047: invalid input char

aliasing fonts (was: Computer Modern Font)

2023-06-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alexis, Thanks for working on this use case! At 2023-06-08T13:40:36+0200, Alexis wrote: > When using the generated Computer Modern Unicode fonts with pdfroff, > grops complains about invalid input characters in the pfb files, e.g.: > > % pdfroff -t -ms -mcmu doc/ms.ms > doc/ms.pdf > grops

Re: Computer Modern Font

2023-06-08 Thread Alexis
Hi all, I went ahead and updated the Makefile posted earlier in this thread, so that the generated fonts work for groff 1.22.4 and 1.23.0 without producing errors. To use the Makefile place it in a directory you feel comfortable including in GROFF_FONT_PATH and run: % make download % make f