On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:54:29PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > If you want to produce postscript output from groff, you will have to deal > > with postscript fonts. The usual Type 1 fonts are single-byte fonts. Groff > > only deals with Latin-1 characters (see groff_char(7)). > > What is Latin-1 ?
A informal name for the single-byte character set published in the ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998 standard. The preferred name is ISO-8859-1. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 BTW, these days ISO-8859-15 (a.k.a. Latin-9) is supposed to have superseded in in Europe, as it adds the Euro sign and some extra ligatures and accented letters. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-15 However, more and more systems and programs are switching to Unicode these days, especially the UTF-8 encoding. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8] As opposed to Type 1 postscript fonts, TrueType or OpenType fonts can handle the thousands of glyphs that are often present in Unicode typefaces. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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