On Sunday, 21 January 2024 00:28:42 GMT Oliver Corff via wrote: > Hi Tom, > > བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། > > (sorry, I forgot the shad) > > have you tried the font TibMachUni-1.901b.ttf? It is available via > > package manager e.g. in Fedora 39. > > Can post a source file for your examples, please? I may try in tomorrow. > > Best regards, > > Oliver. > > On 21/01/2024 00:09, Tom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did typeset few books in Heirloom Troff with quite good outcome. > > For next book I need to use Tibetan font and unfortunately I can't > > make work in Heirloom Troff and Groff, only Neatroff does work. > > > > Right now I'm eager to completely switch to Groff. I can make any font > > work in Groff but not Tibetan. To my basic knowledge, I guess it is > > all about blwm and blws not accessible. There are only few Tibetan > > fonts with complex glyph composition which works in Neatroff. In groff > > I have managed only BabelStoneTibetan to display but several glyphs > > doesn't compose. > > > > For viewing I have attached Groff and Neatroff pdfs. > > > > YagpoTibetanUni: 100% composing in Neatroff but 100% failed in Groff > > and Heirloom troff. > > BabelStoneTibetan: 100% failed in Groff and Neatroff. > > > > I have tried various tibetan fonts, as well NotoSerifTibetan present > > in linux repositories. All those fonts don't work and groff yields: > > troff:<standard input>:20: warning: special character 'u0F04' not defined > > troff:<standard input>:20: warning: special character 'u0F05' not defined > > troff:<standard input>:20: warning: special character 'u0F0D' not defined > > ... > > > > If I understand enough, the warnings are about missing glyph mappings. > > > > Would you mind to have a look and check if Tibetan fonts are possible > > to make work in Groff ? I appreciate for any hints, and direction I > > can follow to make it happen. > > > > > > Regards, > > Tom >
Hi Tom, Using the font suggested by Oliver (after installing it with Peter Schafter's install-font.sh script) and using the latest unicode aware pdf generation version of groff (awaiting release by Branden), with this script:- .ft TibetanR \" What I called Oliver's suggested font .ps 24 .vs 28 .pdfbookmark 1 བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། .br .ad l ༄༅། །དབུ་མ་རྩ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། ཧཱུ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔ It produced the attached. Cheers Deri
Tibetan.pdf
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