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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port troff no Greek letters
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:20:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <179c244a96152b1d6c82cea336bf7fec@plug.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikRhbNQ+tK5dF8rEWisR=Uh3hhi61wkHstn5xUc@mail.gmail.com>

> .FP luxisans
>
> at the top of your file.
>

	{echo .FP luxisans;echo echo αβδγ '\(*a\(*b\(*d\(*g'}|9 troff -ms|9 tr2post|9 psfonts

this did work, as long as i didn't use page.  page failed
in ghostscript misery.  an endless stream of

Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 61
Error: /undefined in 9dda6bd211ae4bc894839b8901cb97177da94aedd3c4d0b00d8c2cffcb31
Operand stack:
[etc., same file position]

i used to think the port of gs to plan 9 had a few problems.
now i realize gs just stinks.

there has to be a better option than an 18mb executable that doesn't
work.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-23  1:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-20 11:46 Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-20 12:00 ` EBo
2010-09-22 17:56 ` Russ Cox
2010-09-22 18:38   ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-23  1:20   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-09-24  5:02 ` Tony Lainson
2010-09-20 12:25 erik quanstrom

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