* [9fans] toff fonts
@ 2011-09-18 5:55 cinap_lenrek
2011-09-18 14:05 ` Russ Cox
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From: cinap_lenrek @ 2011-09-18 5:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
trying to render special unicode character 0x2019
in troff.
but pr2post fails with:
/386/bin/aux/tr2post: <stdin>:31 :WARNING: cannot find glyph, rune=0x2019 stoken=<’> troff font R
now looking in:
/sys/lib/postscript/troff/R
0x2000 0x20ff LucidaSansUnicode20
but in:
/sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/R
there is no reference to 0x2019 at all, only in
/sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/LucidaSans:12: ' 32 2 8217 2019
setting to front to LucidaSans in the troff source works.
so whats the relation between /sys/lib/postscript/troff/*
and /sys/lib/troff/font/dev*/*?
should the stuff in /sys/lib/troff/font/dev*/* be autogeneated
somehow?
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cinap
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* Re: [9fans] toff fonts
2011-09-18 5:55 [9fans] toff fonts cinap_lenrek
@ 2011-09-18 14:05 ` Russ Cox
2011-09-18 14:16 ` cinap_lenrek
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From: Russ Cox @ 2011-09-18 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
why are you trying to render U+2019?
the usual way to do that is to write U+0027.
russ
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* Re: [9fans] toff fonts
2011-09-18 14:05 ` Russ Cox
@ 2011-09-18 14:16 ` cinap_lenrek
2011-09-18 15:07 ` Russ Cox
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From: cinap_lenrek @ 2011-09-18 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
that char comes from a xhtml file from a ebook in
epub format.
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cinap
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* Re: [9fans] toff fonts
2011-09-18 14:16 ` cinap_lenrek
@ 2011-09-18 15:07 ` Russ Cox
2011-09-18 15:22 ` cinap_lenrek
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From: Russ Cox @ 2011-09-18 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Honestly, the easiest thing to do is run the input through sed.
Or use Heirloom troff, which has much better support
for Unicode and modern fonts.
Russ
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* Re: [9fans] toff fonts
2011-09-18 15:07 ` Russ Cox
@ 2011-09-18 15:22 ` cinap_lenrek
2011-09-19 1:01 ` Russ Cox
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From: cinap_lenrek @ 2011-09-18 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
i was just wondering because all these special unicode
characters work with the LucidaSans font. and the
/sys/lib/postscript/troff/R file *suggested* to me that
it should fall back to the Lucida font for special
characters...
how are the troff font descriptions in /sys/lib/troff/font/devutf
generated? this builtables program is all wired bash script
and doesnt work on plan9.
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cinap
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* Re: [9fans] toff fonts
2011-09-18 15:22 ` cinap_lenrek
@ 2011-09-19 1:01 ` Russ Cox
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From: Russ Cox @ 2011-09-19 1:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:22 AM, <cinap_lenrek@gmx.de> wrote:
> i was just wondering because all these special unicode
> characters work with the LucidaSans font. and the
> /sys/lib/postscript/troff/R file *suggested* to me that
> it should fall back to the Lucida font for special
> characters...
>
> how are the troff font descriptions in /sys/lib/troff/font/devutf
> generated?
i don't know, sorry.
i worked it all out once but i've forgotten it.
the different directories are consulted by
different tools. troff uses one to find character
metrics, and then tr2post uses another to map
unicode code points to specific postscript (256-char) fonts.
russ
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