From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff and times roman, need for accented characters
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:16:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120831151633.GA453@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOEdRO278_PQmjmaZ4Jy-gE1QwYNiEyPaVxPtM2dAjbhpEOVUQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 04:44:31PM +0200, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
>
> Had it not been for math, Heirloom troff would solve the problem
> (knows unicode, typesets all the characters I need). However, for some
> reason, it typesets math differently than when plan9 or p9p troff is
> used. Basically, results from heirloom troff + heirloom eqn, or
> heirloom troff + p9p eqn, are bad for some reason.
>
> Has somebody ever fought with this? (probably not...)
>
This is one reason why TeX is preferable, giving it all in one program.
The only problem---but circumventable---is that TeX by itself uses 256
characters for text (this is not the case for math: it uses more, and
that's why unicode via utf-8 is not unachievable without changing hugely
the engine), so one has to convert Unicode to some 8 bits encoding.
The type1 fonts (standard PostScript fonts) are available with the TeX
engine and with european encodings.
And there is TeX for Plan9 via kerTeX:
http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html
This is probably not the answer if the question is "how to do with troff
etc."; but this is an answer.
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-31 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-31 14:44 Rudolf Sykora
2012-08-31 15:16 ` tlaronde [this message]
2012-09-03 8:33 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-09-03 8:57 ` Rudolf Sykora
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