Wherein I illustrate how well I can count... At 2021-07-16T04:24:29+1000, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Given the coupling between output device and font repertoire, I submit > that the most appropriate place to document the available repertoire > is in the man page for the relevant output driver. Four of our seven > such pages do in fact cover this material; see grodvi(1), grolbp(1), > gropdf(1), grops(1), and gxditview(1).
...that's five, not four. [discussion of grohtml and grotty snipped] > There are some deficiencies; some pages, like grolbp(1), don't > actually mention which font family is the default (news flash--it's > Times). The missing one is grolj4(1), which claims not one but _two_ man pages in its demesne, and manages to not cover this material in either. Someday I reckon I will fix that problem, and due to personal irascibility, probably also merge lj4_font(5) into grolj4(1). There's nothing unique about the _groff_ font description format used by the lj4 driver as far as I can see, and that's not what the page discusses; instead it's a description of historical developments of the fonts implemented within the printers. That's not what section 5 of the Unix manual is for. It's interesting reading (I love tech history), but I see no reason this stuff can't move into grolj4(1)--but not early in the page, because its audience is surely even narrower than that for the driver itself. Regards, Branden
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