[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #20, bug #60930 (group groff): Not opposed to that either. I might wonder if the GNU project feels at all territorial about the g prefix, since they use that to distinguish some of their own versions of tools from their ancestors (gmake, gcc, gawk, even gtroff on some systems),

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #19, bug #60930 (group groff): How about just gfont? ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent via Savannah

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #18, bug #60930 (group groff): [comment #17 comment #17:] > [comment #16 comment #16:] > > My suggestion for a name is *fforg*. > > Too many letters in common with fontforge, of which it looks > like an abbreviation. This was my first mental association on reading the name.

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #17, bug #60930 (group groff): [comment #16 comment #16:] > > Branden mentioned two more to-do items in the email cited in comment #5: > > * giving it a less name-space-stomperific name ("groff-font-install" or "groff-install-font" would be clear enough, but I think either would

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #16, bug #60930 (group groff): [comment #7 comment #7:] > Branden mentioned two more to-do items in the email cited in comment #5: > * giving it a less name-space-stomperific name ("groff-font-install" or "groff-install-font" would be clear enough, but I think either would annoy

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #15, bug#60930 (group groff): > I can't remember when I wrote the damned thing Its first appearance I can find on the mailing list is 2012: http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2012-05/msg1.html > I believe Bertrand, as groff maintainer, has to initiate the > copyright assignment

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #14, bug#60930 (group groff): [comment #6 comment #6:] > a first cut that simply checks whether bash is available and > bails gracefully if not. With no objection in the past two weeks, I'm calling that a ringing endorsement of this plan! > Four years ago, James K. Lowden

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #13, bug#60930 (group groff): [comment #12 comment #12:] > [comment #11 comment #11:] > > There's no copyright affixed to the script, but I can add one and > > slap on a GPL notice if that would help. Let me know. There'll > > probably have to be a copyright assignment to the

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #12, bug#60930 (group groff): [comment #11 comment #11:] > There's no copyright affixed to the script, but I can add one and > slap on a GPL notice if that would help. Let me know. There'll > probably have to be a copyright assignment to the Free Software > Foundation as well.

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #11, bug#60930 (group groff): [comment #10 comment #10:] > The potential downside depends on whether Peter wants to continue to maintain his script separately, which would make the groff git version a fork that will then not automatically pick up any changes Peter makes to his

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #10, bug#60930 (group groff): Great! I guess now it's a matter of seeing if anyone has objections to the plan. The upside that I see is that once the current install-font is under groff's git, changes to make it more POSIX-compliant can be made incrementally, rather than

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #9, bug#60930 (group groff): [comment #7 comment #7:] > Kurt, do the points above and in comment #6 make a first cut seem more manageable? Yes. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #8, bug#60930 (group groff): [comment #6 comment #6:] > > * Write some test cases to ensure it works as expected > > It's possible Peter Schaffter, the script's developer, has some he's used privately and would be willing to share. Putting him on cc as well. Sorry, no test

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #7, bug#60930 (group groff): Branden mentioned two more to-do items in the email cited in comment #5: * giving it a less name-space-stomperific name ("groff-font-install" or "groff-install-font" would be clear enough, but I think either would annoy me [and other users] when

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #6, bug#60930 (group groff): [comment #0 original submission:] > * Make the script portable by removing dependencies on > bash-specific features I'm now wondering if there's some wisdom to doing a first cut that simply checks whether bash is available and bails gracefully if

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #60930 (project groff): Some commentary about this at http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2022-05/msg00051.html ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #60930 (project groff): Sorry, things have been busy. I intend to devote more time to this soon. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #60930 (project groff): Any word on this, Kurt? ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent via Savannah

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Update of bug #60930 (project groff): Status:None => In Progress ___ Follow-up Comment #2: T. Kurt Bond has graciously volunteered to tackle this!

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #60930 (project groff): [comment #0 original submission:] > * Further discussion of tasks and links to previous discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-07/msg00065.html This also suggests this item would be suitable for someone without deep groff

[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

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