Re: Small offset in overlapping Polygons

Hi Thomas, Thx for your comment. I did use the .ta request in my .PAGESETUP macro. :-) Kind regards Wim Stockman Op ma 2 nov. 2020 om 18:40 schreef Thomas Dupond < thomasdup...@protonmail.com>: > Hi Wim, > If I may, your project looks good ! I recently learned about the .ta > request > and I thi

Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.

>> There's a Linux version too, if you're interested: >> https://github.com/talamus/solarize-12x29-psf > > A pity there’s no OpenType version. Attached :-) I converted the font using `psf2bdf.pl` and `fontforge` (followed by a normalization run using `ttx` twice to disassemble and reassemble th

Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.

John Gardner wrote: > It's called Sun Gallant Demi (or simply "Gallant", as no other weights or > variations of it exist). It's the default console font of SPARC > workstations and SunOS/Solaris; OpenBSD used to use it, until they switched > to a much blander console font

Re: Observations using utmac

On 29.10.20 21:04, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote: Hello Johann, Johann Höchtl wrote: I used the wonderful utmac-macro set on an arbitrary text which is in the PD. I admit it was more like playing to discover the possibilities of troff and utmac. I made some observations I would like to show / disc

Re: Small offset in overlapping Polygons

Hi Wim, If I may, your project looks good ! I recently learned about the .ta request and I think it could help better your project, especially to align the opening hours in your table. I hastily wrote the text below, and the rendering is quite good. |---| represent a tab. .nf .ta 15m +5m +3m Maand

Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.

On Nov 02 12:09:45, schwa...@usta.de wrote: > Hi, > > Werner LEMBERG wrote on Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 09:42:35AM +0100: > > > To summarize: It seems that there is only a single platform left today > > that by default uses a bitmap font for terminals with symmetric ` and > > ' characters. This sort-

Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.

Hi Werner, Werner LEMBERG wrote on Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 01:50:36PM +0100: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>> To summarize: It seems that there is only a single platform left >>> today that by default uses a bitmap font for terminals with >>> symmetric ` and ' characters. This so

Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.

>> To summarize: It seems that there is only a single platform left >> today that by default uses a bitmap font for terminals with >> symmetric ` and ' characters. This sort-of proves my point, >> doesn't it? > > What matters is that large numbers of manual pages use unescaped ' > and ` to repres

Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.

I think it's time we took constant-width fonts seriously when preparing output for the terminal. Here me out on this: You see, I've never, *ever* needed fancy typography when typesetting code samples, which are invariably set in a fixed-pitch (monspace) typeface. The use of a fixed-pitch font stip

Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.

Hi, Werner LEMBERG wrote on Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 09:42:35AM +0100: > To summarize: It seems that there is only a single platform left today > that by default uses a bitmap font for terminals with symmetric ` and > ' characters. This sort-of proves my point, doesn't it? I fear you missed the poi

Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.

> > To summarize: It seems that there is only a single platform left today > that by default uses a bitmap font for terminals with symmetric ` and > ' characters. This sort-of proves my point, doesn't it? It gets even worse. See, whenever you edit source code, symmetric quote-pairs look like a d

Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.

> It's called Sun Gallant Demi Thanks. > (or simply "Gallant", as no other weights or variations of it > exist). It's the default console font of SPARC workstations and > SunOS/Solaris; OK. > OpenBSD used to use it, until they switched to a much blander > console font