I have tested the new preprocessor with the groff options -K<encding> and -k
This is all very encouraging. I have three problems I haven't been able to solve. I've a manuscript of a book containing medieval greek quotations and to format those I installed a subset of kerkis fonts (quoting from my download file), namely: Kerkis-Italic Kerkis-Italic.pfa Kerkis Kerkis.pfa Kerkis-SemiBold-Italic Kerkis-SemiBold-Italic.pfa Kerkis-SemiBold Kerkis-SemiBold.pfa which I "mounted" on groff fonts KI, KR, KBI and KB and treat as font family K. I used groff current as of 20070518 for the task, with the afmtodit as distributed. Professor Robert Goulding at Princeton University did a similar job some years ago, but his package is not to be found on the Internet[1]. Although it is possible to format everything with Kerkis, I have chosen to use Kerkis for greek only, when I switched to Kerkis I used \f(KR...\fP. It didn't work at all -- groff tried to take all greek characters from the special fonts S and SS. Then I switched font family temporarily using \FK .. \F[]. Then I got partial success: All diachritical characters come out as KR, but the remaining are taken from SS (slanted special characters). In order to get this printed correctly, I need to reset the system of special characters. How do I do that (Problem 1)? Ironically, since greek characters are so widely used in science and math, it might be more difficult to print greek text than say text in cyrillic... :-) For this document I have an extensive indexing apparatus, so I write a lot of information with the request .write (and its friends .writec and .writem). It appears that these come out in a mix of latin1 encoded strings and entries like this: author:\[u00C5]str\[u00F6]m, P. ... 46 In order to sort my titles, authors, place names I need to translate this back to utf-8. How do I do that (Problem 2)? Finally I have a number of greek names and they are not emitted at all. How do I go about to get hold of them (Problem 3)? Thanks in advance, and have a nice Sunday! Yours Sigge [1] see http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.princeton.edu/%7Egoulding/groff.html --------- Sigfrid Lundberg, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) URL: http://www.sigfrid-lundberg.se
