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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:04:43 +0100
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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] troff fonts
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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
>
>