From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:16:33 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20120831151633.GA453@polynum.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] troff and times roman, need for accented characters Topicbox-Message-UUID: b54fc10e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C