Re: GNU troff output and font metrics demystified (was: Greek letters not slanted in -Tps eqn output)

2022-08-09 Thread joerg van den hoff
second time with complete list of addressees ... hi branden, thank you for this background info. really appreciated. I was aware of part of it but definitely not all of it. out of curiosity: if I get this right, presence and usage of the t-command thus excludes any application of microtypograp

Re: Greek letters not slanted in -Tps eqn output

2022-08-09 Thread joerg van den hoff
hi deri, thank you, although I am starting to feel obtuse :). so what you say is *only* grops does not find SS (in my previous broken setup with disjunct `download' instances in system and my additional fonts tree) but groff still finds the system SS font description file? and then groff bases

Re: Greek letters not slanted in -Tps eqn output

2022-08-09 Thread Deri
On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 13:46:43 BST joerg van den hoff wrote: > hi deri, > > thank you, although I am starting to feel obtuse :). > > so what you say is *only* grops does not find SS (in my previous broken > setup with disjunct `download' instances in system and my additional fonts > tree) but

Re: Greek letters not slanted in -Tps eqn output

2022-08-09 Thread joerg van den hoff
not my day... again forgot to include the list in the address field. so second try again: On 09.08.22 17:05, Deri wrote: On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 13:46:43 BST joerg van den hoff wrote: hi deri, thank you, although I am starting to feel obtuse :). so what you say is *only* grops does not fin

Re: Greek letters not slanted in -Tps eqn output

2022-08-09 Thread joerg van den hoff
On 09.08.22 20:03, Deri wrote: On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 18:13:10 BST joerg van den hoff wrote: question: is there a deeper reason, why grops does not traverse all known font locations/dirs and scan all found `download' files until, hopefully, a hit is found? I mean except "someone would need

Re: Greek letters not slanted in -Tps eqn output

2022-08-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[looping in groff@ again due to a shift in discussion focus to development] At 2022-08-09T19:14:25+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote: > On 09.08.22 17:05, Deri wrote: > > groff and grops can find the SS file, which gives the widths of the > > SS glyphs, but grops cannot find the Symbolsl.pfa file bec

Re: Greek letters not slanted in -Tps eqn output

2022-08-09 Thread Deri
On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 20:38:44 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [looping in groff@ again due to a shift in discussion focus to > development] > > At 2022-08-09T19:14:25+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote: > It is possible for device or font description files to be incomplete; if > they are missing