Follow-up Comment #24, bug #63018 (group groff): Hi Deri & Dave,
[comment #22 comment #22:] > Speaking about afmtodit only. > > If vintage afm files are not forthcoming, then (2 - makefile target) is moot. [comment #23 comment #23:] > Perhaps, or perhaps it's worth implementing anyway so as to be ready if the files ever materialize. Either way, that discussion has little to do with this ticket's focus (the ZD characters). In fact I think it's worth considering doing the reverse transformation once, or writing out own tool to interpret authentic vintage proprietary fonts and extract their metrics (and other uncopyrightable data), if such metrics files cannot be located. We'd then ship those metrics files as part of groff, do the other Makefile stuff, and no future groff maintainers would have as much difficulty figuring out these procedures again. [comment #22 comment #22:] > Only (1) is not dependent and that will be done when I rejig afmtodit to:- > > Look for different 'spaces' to set 'spacewidth'. > Implement -ww switch - force even if 'space' found. > Warn if -w used and 'space' found (but advise rerun with -ww to override). I ask that we spell these '-w' (fallback) and '-W' (force), respectively. Or maybe pick other another letter altogether for one (or both). Generally, in Unix commands, repeating an option flag, when it is meaningful at all, means to do something "harder" or "more", not to do it differently. > Document if -w or -ww used in font header comments. That's not, in my opinion, strictly coupled to the problem of determining the space width. Certainly not a bad thing to do, but it should be a separate commit. Oh, and even more so since as Dave points out below, it's a separate bug report too. [comment #23 comment #23:] > (This presumably means bug #65619, as 65659 is for another project.) > > Bug #65619 seems to cover different ground than bug #65697. Neither one seems dependent on the other to me, though if I'm wrong, savannah now allows showing bug dependencies. Anyway, to reëstablish where _this_ ticket is, it's in "Need Info" state and assigned to me because I need to figure out if I can use the archive files in comment #15 with _afmtodit_ to regenerate the _devps_ font description files we have today. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63018> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/