Re: [Groff] Setting Text Along A Curve

2015-01-18 Thread James K. Lowden
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:49:38 - (GMT) (Ted Harding) ted.hard...@wlandres.net wrote: And the Blue Book, i.e. the PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook can be downloaded (it was published in 1985) from: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF The circular text

Re: [Groff] Setting Text Along A Curve

2015-01-18 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 19/01/15 15:04:50, James K. Lowden wrote: In musing about PostScript I came across Mathematical Illustrations by Bill Casselman, http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/ and his example of text-on-a-path on page 3 of the preface,

Re: [Groff] Proper Small Caps.

2015-01-18 Thread Ali Gholami Rudi
Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote: http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps designed by the designer. Thought it might be of interest given troff's long-time S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0,

[Groff] Proper Small Caps.

2015-01-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps designed by the designer. Thought it might be of interest given troff's long-time S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0, especially used in the formatting of Unix.

Re: [Groff] Proper Small Caps.

2015-01-18 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Jan-2015 11:15:05 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps designed by the designer. Thought it might be of interest given troff's long-time S\s-2MALL\s0

Re: [Groff] Proper Small Caps.

2015-01-18 Thread Denis M. Wilson
Rather than shrinking, squash the fake small caps, eg: S\H'\n[.s]*5/7'MALL\H'0' C\H'\n[.s]*5/7'APS\H'0' (the 5/7 should approximate to the x-height of the font). This works better because more of the heavy strokes in a western font are upright, and this keeps the weight of those. As

Re: [Groff] Setting Text Along A Curve

2015-01-18 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Jan-2015 12:32:56 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Cartsen, Robert Thorsby wrote: I need to set some text (eg., Lorem Ipsum) along the arc of a curve (eg, a circle). The curve itself need not be visible. Heirloom troff has a .pshape request for that. Robert's after text that follows

Re: [Groff] Proper Small Caps.

2015-01-18 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps designed by the designer. I'm fond of smallcaps, but I don't like the faked version, not even the OpenType