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From: pmarin <pmarin.mail@gmail.com>
Date: Tue,  6 Nov 2012 15:47:03 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] unicode fonts in troff
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Can you describe the process or at least where did you get all the
info for doing this thing?

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Pavel Klinkovsky
<pavel.klinkovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to use it under plan9 but sadly i don't have the knowhow.
>> Maybe someone smarter will fix it.
>
> To allow the "special" characters (different from latin-1) in Plan9's troff you need to create tables of glyphs and the font metrics.
>
> I have already made such a laborious conversion process when porting TTF containing czech characters to Plan9's troff.
> Now I write the czech documents in Plan9's troff.
>
> Pavel
>