On 10-Mar-06 Michail Vidiassov wrote: > Dear All, > > let us run some survey. > Please, tell us, how do you use groff PS output. > Do you know how other people use it? > Is it really in use? > Do you use fonts supplied with groff or install your own font files? > > Werner is now desiding what to consider the default font set for devps. > > Sincerely, Michail
I've been watching this thread with a little concern. Regarding Mikhail's final remark, I would like to say that, whatever additional fonts become available with groff, the standard Adobe fonts should remain the default. Otherwise, too many things created in the past will break. Also, they are de facto defaults in many other contexts outside groff, and all PS-enabled printers etc. include them (either as true Adobe fonts or as aliases to the manufacturer's own versions of similar fonts). In answer to the other questions: 1. I use groff PS output a) for printing to a PS printer b) for display (with ghostscript, ghostview, etc.) c) for creating PS files to be converted to PDF d) to create EPS files ... 2. "Other people" use it for all sorts of things. Basically for anything you can use a PS file for! 3. I'm not sure if I really understand the question, but if there is an implication that people don't really use groff PS output any more, then my emphatic ansers is a) YES it is really in use! b) NO it is not going obsolete! 4. The groff fonts are not "supplied with groff" -- all you get is the description files which define the metrics, kerns, and the groff names of the characters. The apparent exceptions (symbolsl.pfa, zapfdr.pfa) are simply tiny files which define transformations on the Symbol and Zapf Dingbats fonts which are presumed to be already available in the printer or display device, and are not supplied as fonts. I normally use simply the standard groff fonts (i.e. the same as the Adobe standard fonts plus SS and ZDR); but I have also installed some additional fonts (additional type faces corresponding to standard fonts, plus some additional different fints such as Cyrillic and IPA). I use whatever is needed by the task in hand. So I do both: a) use the standard fonts; b) install my own. I'd be grateful for clarification of where people think this discussion is heading. And why. Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 10-Mar-06 Time: 22:12:32 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
