From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] troff fonts with special characters
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:14:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikgRxdvSX8vj6ZS7Czm4RUEdOPSSW-KqEXt98dy@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hello,
I've been trying to regularly use troff for my writings. Being a
physicist I generally write a lot of math. What I miss quite often are
special math characters like Dirac brackets, in TeX \langle, \rangle
(so far I've replaced them just with < and >; but then I sometimes
need them bigger...), but also others.
I want to ask if somebody tried to add such characters using some
fonts or at least can give some instructions as to what needs to be
done.
If I understand right, troff only needs to know widths of characters,
i.e. /sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/'font_description'. Is that all troff
needs?
Then I need to both somehow see the characters on screen and get them
to the postscript result, i.e. have a real font file for both.
Is there any documentation about how this should be done?
Is there anywhere any documentation about how 'dpost' (tr2post) works?
Thanks
Ruda
next reply other threads:[~2010-09-10 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-10 12:14 Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2010-09-11 19:18 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-11 22:18 ` Russ Cox
2010-09-12 9:25 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-12 18:25 ` Akshat
2010-09-12 19:38 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-09-12 20:49 ` Akshat
2010-09-13 14:05 ` Jeff Sickel
2010-09-13 14:28 ` ron minnich
2010-09-13 14:30 ` erik quanstrom
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