ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
Christian Franke via Cygwin writes:
ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
- Various PDF fonts produce warnings but seem to work in general:

$ echo "Hello, World!" | groff -Tpdf -f A > hello.A.pdf
/usr/bin/gropdf: warning: The download file in
'/usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf'  has erroneous entry for
'AvantGarde-Book (AR)'
WJFFM.  You need to have groff-perl and urw-base35-fonts-legacy
installed.

groff-perl is installed, otherwise groff would complain about a missing DESC file. Installing urw-base35-fonts-legacy fixes this, thanks.

It is IMO not obvious for the occasional groff user that this package is needed.



- Man pages could no longer be formatted with a specific font. Only
   header and footer lines use the selected font then, the rest stays
   at the default font 'T':
[…]
Intentional change or regression?
IDK, ask upstream.

OK, will do. Didn't find anything similar here: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff

IMO a regression, obvious in the postscript output:

$ groff -man -T ps -f H <<EOF
.TH TOOL "1" "2023-07-23" "Toolset" "Section"
.SH NAME
Tool \- do something interesting
EOF
...
%%EndPageSetup
/F0 10/Helvetica-Oblique@0 SF -.4(TO)72 48 S(OL).4 E/F1 10/Helvetica@0
SF 174.995(\(1\) Section).5 F F0 -.4(TO)177.775 G(OL).4 E F1(\(1\)).5 E
/F2 10.95/Times-Bold@0 SF -.219(NA)72 84 S(ME).219 E/F3 10/Times-Roman@0
SF -.8(To)108 96 S(ol \255 do something interesting).8 E F1 -1.2(To)72
768 S 174.06(olset 2023-07-23)1.2 F(1)202.87 E 0 Cg EP
%%Trailer
...

/Times-* should not appear above.

--
Regards,
Christian


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