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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port troff no Greek letters
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:56:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikRhbNQ+tK5dF8rEWisR=Uh3hhi61wkHstn5xUc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTingRRKCN3O5qK4SFsv0i=vX45xmYo+4irww2tqw@mail.gmail.com>

> my plan9 machine has broken down and I need to continue working.
> I use troff with math. When I tried to typeset my text under plan9port
> (instead of the native plan9) with
>
> cat $stem.ms |9 pic|9 eqn|9 troff -ms|9 tr2post | 9 psfonts >$stem.ps
>
> I can't see any Greek letters.
> Is there sth. simple to do?

Try using

.FP luxisans

at the top of your file.

> PS.: Does anyone of you know if it is possible to teach linux to read
> unicode letters as plan9 does? I mean e.g. alt+*+a means alpha, etc.

Yes.  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey has some
information on the X11 Compose sequence mechanism.  I have
been meaning to prepare something in p9p to generate a config
that makes the X11 compose do exactly what p9p does (except
maybe the alt-X for spelling out Unicode by hex).  If you make
one, please post it.  mklatinkbd is probably a good start.

Russ


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22 17:56 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 [this message]
2010-09-22 18:38   ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-23  1:20   ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-24  5:02 ` Tony Lainson
2010-09-20 12:25 erik quanstrom

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