At 2021-07-16T22:31:56-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> I am still not enlightened. As far as I know, neither install-font.sh
> nor fontforge are present, documented, or referenced in the groff
> distribution.
fontforge will be mentioned in the grops(1) man page of groff 1.23.0.
If we can ever get
At 2021-07-17T01:55:02-0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> Yes, "sudo install-font.sh " is simpler, as long as you know
> how to answer the prompts! I should have started there in my
> explanation. I guess the fact that I run the script potentially
> multiple times on multiple different computers makes m
Yes, "sudo install-font.sh " is simpler, as long as you know how
to answer the prompts! I should have started there in my explanation. I
guess the fact that I run the script potentially multiple times on multiple
different computers makes my usage more complicated.
I'll have to read the source o
Kurt, thanks for saving me having to explain why groff doesn't know
anything about install-font.sh and fontforge.
Doug, I hope you see this.
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> In the meantime, if you want to install fonts in OpenType or TrueType
> formats for use with devps and devpdf, i
Drats, I forgot to hit reply all, and my reply didn't get sent to the groff
mailing list. Sigh. Here you go.
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From: T. Kurt Bond
Date: Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: Would it be reasonable to list the fonts that are available by
defau
>> I'm generally an intrepid groff user, but not when it comes to font
>> installation. Anything that demystifies the process will win my applause.
> Despite the vagaries of directory locations, once you understand what
> install-font.sh wants and fontforge is installed install-font.sh is
> relati
So, on my Fedora 33 box at home, with both of the packages groff-base (the
default install, just for man pages, I think?) and groff (the rest of
groff) installed, /usr/share/groff does not contain a site-font.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 8:15 PM T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:58:41 -04
On 7/15/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> What I think we need is to absorb Peter's font installer into groff,
> give it a man page, make sure it works for a preponderance of expected
> scenarios, and so forth. I'd do it, but I haven't had the spoons.
And you already have a huge number of spoons
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:16:50 -0400,
Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> I'm generally an intrepid groff user, but not when it comes to font
> installation. Anything that demystifies the process will win my applause.
>
> Doug
Despite the vagaries of directory locations, once you understand what
install-font
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:58:41 -0400,
Wim Stockman wrote:
> Using the site-font directory so you don't need root access.
So, whether or not the site-font directory is owned by root, or even
exists, is inconsistent. (This also makes it difficult to find
automatically for scripts.)
For instance, on
> We could basically write a macro that installs on the fly a system
> available font for groff. Using the possibility to run an external script
> from within groff I m sure it is possible to install the font on the fly.
> Running Peter font-install script. Using the site-font directory so you
> do
At 2021-07-15T22:58:41+0200, Wim Stockman wrote:
> Actually I don't think that is necessary. We could basically write a
> macro that installs on the fly a system available font for groff.
> Using the possibility to run an external script from within groff I m
> sure it is possible to install the f
Actually I don't think that is necessary.
We could basically write a macro that installs on the fly a system
available font for groff. Using the possibility to run an external script
from within groff I m sure it is possible to install the font on the fly.
Running Peter font-install script. Using t
Wherein I illustrate how well I can count...
At 2021-07-16T04:24:29+1000, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Given the coupling between output device and font repertoire, I submit
> that the most appropriate place to document the available repertoire
> is in the man page for the relevant output driver.
At 2021-07-15T12:10:05-0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> Perhaps in groff_font(5) and in groff.texi?
Thanks for raising this point; it is a poorly understood one. And that
likely means we don't document it well enough.
The available font repertoire is specific to each output device, so
groff_font(5) o
Perhaps in groff_font(5) and in groff.texi?
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