Re: [Groff] Why does tty-char.tmac not represent meaning?

2017-07-23 Thread Pedro A . López-Valencia
3. The Spanish inverted exclamation and question marks are represented by the same characters in upright position. While that will probably look strange to Spanish readers, i can think of no better way, and i think everybody will understand it. The current "i" and "c" is uni

Re: [Groff] Bitstream vera sans

2017-08-09 Thread Pedro A . López-Valencia
On 9/08/2017 9:11 a.m., John Gardner wrote: [too long] You've e-mailed me directly, so the rest of the mailing list won't hear you (assuming you haven't BCCed Mkkel in your reply). I've added the list's address for you. =) Do accept my apologies for the direct message. I hadn't my emai

Re: [Groff] Re: preconv supported encodings

2006-01-04 Thread Pedro A . López-Valencia
till you actually try it, believe me I have), has absolutely nothing to do with end user working environments. MS uses CP encodings for end-user interaction and that won't be changing in the forseeable future, AFAIK. If you can point me to the MSDN article that proves me wrong, I'll galdly

Re: [Groff] mapping of glyphs to Unicode

2006-02-16 Thread Pedro A . López-Valencia
font family seems risky. > > Can you list more fonts? > May be these truetype embeded bitmap fonts can help? http://sourceforge.jp/projects/mplus-fonts/. -- Pedro A. López-Valencia Better to remain silent and let people believe you are a fool than open your mouth

Re: [Groff] Re: Bug in mm macro package

2006-02-19 Thread Pedro A. López-Valencia
which only had four hardwired font positions, 0->R, 1->I, 2->B, 4->S for four different typeface *tapes*. That is no longer the case, the C/A/Ts still in existence, if there is any, are used as doorstops and Wang is long gone and buried. Later ditroff versions inherite

Fwd: [Groff] Re: groff + mp

2006-02-21 Thread Pedro A. López-Valencia
On 2/21/06, Michail Vidiassov wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> Michail Vidiassov wrote: > >> BTW. I think the latter support was broken netertheless. Can you > >> check?) > > > > I can't. I don't have an old troff running. > > What is the real state of the troff land?

Re: [Groff] Possible zsh contention in pdfroff (Re: [autoconf] ensure a VPATH build)

2006-02-23 Thread Pedro A. López-Valencia
On 2/21/06, Keith MARSHALL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given the complete absence of related of bug reports, either: > > 1) This isn't true (which seems unlikely), or (more likely) > > 2) No one has attempted to build groff >= 1.19.2, or to use pdfroff, >on any system where /bin/sh is linked

Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?

2006-02-26 Thread Pedro A. López-Valencia
On 2/25/06, Larry Kollar wrote: > > How much work would it be to hook into whatever system-wide printer > drivers there may be? A lot. > This is something I've been pondering for a > while, and I don't even have a clue how gtroff figures out glyph > widths (is there some communication between gtr

Re: [Groff] Adding fonts to groff -- instructions?

2006-03-13 Thread Pedro A. López-Valencia
On 3/13/06, Robert Marks wrote: > Ted suggests adding the font to /font/devps/DESC (see below). > What is the purpose of this? > I haven't done it and things seem to work, but perhaps I'm missing something. > PS printers and software RIPs (namely, ghostscript as it is the best know and more widesp