Follow-up Comment #13, bug #65098 (group groff):

[comment #9 comment #9:]
> Hi Deri,
> 
[...]
> Also, if you could regenerate the "SS" file using a contemporary _afmtodit_
> that records more information, that would be helpful.  Do you have an "afm"
> file for "StandardSymSL.pfb"?

Not one that "works", for the same reason we can't run afmtodit on the
symbolsl.afm file in grops, it produces the wrong values because the
width/height values do not take into account the transformation by .89. The
best way of producing the gropdf/SS file is:-

grep -v "^---" src/font/devps/SS

Grops's SS file is the only place with the correct numbers! I might be able to
write a script which tekes the symbol afm file and adjusts the numbers so that
when run with afmtodit -i 50 it will actually generate the correct numbers.

I have noticed commit 66df2be1a90c88efda979305cde588c1ed3e3b7c actually stops
gropdf picking up the unicode number from the comment field because it
replaced "--\tcode" with "-- code", (I'm splitting the line on tabs so it is
one field less), but I do like the intention of the patch, to stop the comment
output if there is no unicode.

> I ask for all this stuff because it's hard to get _gropdf_ to find
> "StandardSymSL.pfb" to embed it when running it from a build tree that is not
> also the source tree.  That is a supported build scenario (and my usual one).
>  The "download" file doesn't have any concept of source tree and build tree;
> to it, everything is an installation.

I hope the patch to allow multiple -F flags simplifies the problem, SS and the
pfb file sit in the src until make install, the same way grops treats its SS.


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