Re: [9fans] plan9port troff no Greek letters

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

>> I can't see any Greek letters.
>> Is there sth. simple to do?
>
> Try using
>
> .FP luxisans
>
> at the top of your file.

I tried this as soon as sb here mentioned your earlier post where you
had proposed the same: http://9fans.net/archive/2010/09/206
However, not better with it.
Btw., I observe the same problem as Eric Q, who found that
echo α '\(*a' | 9 troff -ms | page
doesn't draw the first alpha but does draw the second...

>> 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

Thanks for the pointer!

Ruda