metapost labels in groff

2002-11-16 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All, as far as I know, metapost from tetex does not work with groff and has difficulties with font changes in non-tex labels. Is anybody interested in fixing that? May be somebody has already fixed tetex for himsef? Thomas, will you pay attention to detailed bug reports and/or patches addr

Re: metapost labels in groff

2002-11-16 Thread Akira Kakuto
> as far as I know, metapost from tetex does not work > with groff and has difficulties with font changes > in non-tex labels. A sample. Not well tested. (I'm not familiar with groff.) README.groff (1) patch -p0 foo.ps diff -Nur mpware-orig/dmp.c mpware/dmp.c ---

Re: metapost labels in groff

2002-11-16 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Akiro, do you use that patch yourself or have just hacked it? Some comments on it: 0) No trfonts.nam or trchars.adj in tetex. 1) As character names in groff font metrics files may be 8bit. thus the "hash" function has to be changed as follows to avoid core dupms if compiled with signed char.

Re: metapost labels in groff

2002-11-16 Thread Akira Kakuto
> Some comments on it: Thanks a lot for your important comments. That was a code about 10 years ago, just regulated to match the latest sources. I rarely use groff, and really that patch dose not work, as you have pointed out. Best,

Re: metapost labels in groff

2002-12-07 Thread Thomas Esser
> Thomas, will you pay attention to detailed bug reports > and/or patches addressing this issue? Metapost is written and maintained by John Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The web2c port of it is maintained by Olaf Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I'd prefer that you'd adress these questions to them. My aim

Re: metapost labels in groff

2002-12-09 Thread Olaf Weber
Michail Vidiassov writes: > Dear All, > as far as I know, metapost from tetex does not work with groff and > has difficulties with font changes in non-tex labels. > Is anybody interested in fixing that? Are you? > May be somebody has already fixed tetex for himsef? > Thomas, will you pay atten