Re: [9fans] troff fonts

[Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>]

So it seems that the UnivMath* files are
just dummies here - there's no real font
coverage for that stuff? Does anyone
know if the actual PS fonts are available
somewhere? Or am I missing something?

As per the Heirloom troff stuff - I tried porting
Heirloom, but firstly, I like the ability to input
UTF-8, otherwise I would just be using my
own port of lout. If it were possible, I'd just like
to patch the current troff we have with all the
analogous changes that the Heirloom folks
made. You can see from their code that it's
a bunch of pieces tacked on to troff (at least
from what I saw). But still, that's quite a bit of
effort.


Thanks,
ak

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What I know about the topic is basically here
> http://9fans.net/archive/2010/09/182
> However, I must repeat, the whole stuff is a mess.
> What I think would be useful, would be to backport the abilities of
> the Heirloom troff to work with T1, Truetype, OpenType fonts directly.
>
> R
>
>
> On 17 February 2011 09:49, Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
>> I'm trying to use the UnivMath6 fonts
>> in order to get a Blackboard bold D
>> in troff, so I issue:
>>
>> .fp 6 M6 UnivMath6
>>
>> but when it comes to postscript, it
>> complains:
>>
>> converting from troff to postscript...
>> /386/bin/aux/tr2post: <stdin>:76 :WARNING: cannot open file
>> /sys/lib/postscript/troff/UnivMath6
>> /386/bin/aux/tr2post: <stdin>:78 :FATAL: character <0x44> does not
>> have a Postscript font defined.
>> reading through postscript...
>> cannot find end of first line
>>
>> It would be nice if the all the troff fonts
>> were defined for postscript use as well.
>> How can one make a map for PS to
>> use?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ak
>>
>>
>
>