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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] postscript fonts
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:10:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0810181010h7cd3b693mb50b68f6dbe8802b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d145bfc82e749c416dc096dd4c8ca9dc@quintile.net>

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> being a postscript font virgin, can somone help me with what is
> probably a simple problem for one who knows.
>
>        troff doc.ms | lp
> gives me:
>        /386/bin/aux/tr2post: <stdin>:168 :WARNING: cannot find glyph, rune=0x20ac
>                stoken=<€> troff font LucidaSans
>
> How do I add a euro symbol to LucidaSans?

You don't.  You find a different PS font with a euro symbol,
and then you change the troff table for your troff font
to point at that PS font for the euro symbol.  If you look at
/sys/lib/postscript/troff/R you will see an example table.

Russ

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-18 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-25  9:21 Steve Simon
2008-10-18 17:10 ` Russ Cox [this message]

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