Re: gropdf-ng merge status (was: PDF outline not capturing Cyrillic text)

2024-02-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Deri, At 2024-02-06T21:35:05+, Deri wrote: > Many thanks for your thoughts on my code. I shall reply in general > terms since your grasp of some of the issues is rather hazy, as you > admit. I generally don't feel I grasp code of nontrivial complexity until I've documented it and written t

Re: Re: PDF outline not capturing Cyrillic text

2024-02-06 Thread Robin Haberkorn
On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 01:39:51PM +, Deri wrote: > Hi Robin, > > The current gropdf (in the master branch) does support UTF-16BE for pdf > outlines (see attached pdf), but Branden has not released the other parts to > make it work! If you can compile and install the current git the applying

Re: gropdf-ng merge status (was: PDF outline not capturing Cyrillic text)

2024-02-06 Thread Deri
On Tuesday, 6 February 2024 14:45:59 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Deri, > > Now _does_ seem to be a good time to catch up on gropdf-ng merge status. > There were two things I knew were still unmerged: the slanted symbol > (SS) font support and the stringhex business, which has larger > cons

Re: .bp not working in groff 1.23.0 when it worked fine in 1.22.4

2024-02-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-02-05T13:11:04-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 2/5/24, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > As far as I know, groff has never extended AT&T troff syntax in _this_ > > respect. > > > > The argument count to requests (unlike macros) is seemingly sacrosanct. > > Groff extended the .ss request by add

Re: [PATCH v3] [grotty]: Use terminfo.

2024-02-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-02-05T23:57:08+, Lennart Jablonka wrote: > Quoth G. Branden Robinson: > > Fortunately, ncurses is attentively maintained. So instead of > > sucking up a whole bunch of oxygen there as I did with groff, I > > found that it behooves me to actually read the X/Open Issue 7 > > standard for

gropdf-ng merge status (was: PDF outline not capturing Cyrillic text)

2024-02-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Deri, Now _does_ seem to be a good time to catch up on gropdf-ng merge status. There were two things I knew were still unmerged: the slanted symbol (SS) font support and the stringhex business, which has larger consequences than I understood at first. At 2024-02-06T13:39:51+, Deri wrote: >