From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:44:31 +0200 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [9fans] troff and times roman, need for accented characters Topicbox-Message-UUID: b54baa9c-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello, I again bumped into this awkward topic. Being Czech I need to write with quite a few accented characters. Being a physicist I write some math, too, and I use unicode characters often. Plan9 as well as p9p troff is not set up for using accented characters I need (above 0xff but below 0x1ff, such as =C4=8F, =C4=9B, =C5=88, =C5=99,= =C5=A1, =C5=A5, =C5=AF, =C5=BE) in Times-Roman. It switches to LucidaSans for the range, which is pretty bad. Using LucidaSans for all text is not an option. I need Times-Roman (or some other serif font). Had it not been for math, Heirloom troff would solve the problem (knows unicode, typesets all the characters I need). However, for some reason, it typesets math differently than when plan9 or p9p troff is used. Basically, results from heirloom troff + heirloom eqn, or heirloom troff + p9p eqn, are bad for some reason. Has somebody ever fought with this? (probably not...) There is a type1 urw font NimbusRoNo9L, which is free, basically Times-Roman, and has the characters I need. But I do not know precisely what should be done to be able to use it. As it is, it seems to be a type1 font, but with more than 255 glyphs, so I believe that those for-me-interesting glyphs cannot be directly indexed. I read somewhere they can only be used under their unicode names or what. If this is true, I need to do something with the font, probably divide it into two... Does anybody know more and can help? Thank you! Ruda