URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64232>
Summary: stop assigning `*[a-ik-uw-z]` special characters to italic fonts Group: GNU roff Submitter: gbranden Submitted: Mon 22 May 2023 04:53:23 AM UTC Category: Driver - others/general Severity: 1 - Wish Item Group: Feature change Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon 22 May 2023 04:53:23 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden> This might be my most disruptive proposed change yet, though I expect it to be of low impact given another change I have in mind. Modern fonts make Greek letters, which _are_ text glyphs, available in a variety of styles just like Latin letters. This is unlike the "Special" font commissioned by Bell Labs for the Graphic Systems C/A/T, which had upright capital Greek letters (only) and italic lowercase Greek letters (only). See groff_char(7). We should stop forcing lowercase Greek special characters to be italic (by assigning these names only in italic font description files) anywhere this is possible. See bug #64231 for a counterpart I'd couple to this proposal. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64232> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/