From: "Marcin „sirmacik” Karpezo" <marcin@karpezo.pl>
To: discuss@mandoc.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Bad national charachers renndering in PDF
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:07:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181119140715.GB19234@mail.freearts.agency> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <340.1542635529@cathet.us>
Anthony J. Bentley dixit (2018-11-19, 06:52):
> Hi Marcin,
>
> Marcin „sirmacik” Karpezo writes:
> > I'm having troubles with rendering of Polish charachers in my pdf
> > exports. I've tried every options I've found in man and so on, but
> > without any results.
>
> Unfortunately mandoc's PDF output doesn't handle Unicode at all, and
> renders all special characters as ASCII. I am not sure what adding
> such support would entail (there might be font issues?). mandoc is
> great at rendering Unicode in the terminal and in HTML output, but
> getting Unicode in PDF manuals is currently a matter of using some
> other troff implementation.
That's bad news. At my institute we've found ourselves writing a lot of
mandoc documentation but we also need to start producing PDFs from it.
Thanks for the info, I'll start looking for some other implementation.
Marcin
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-19 13:31 Marcin „sirmacik” Karpezo
2018-11-19 13:52 ` Anthony J. Bentley
2018-11-19 14:06 ` Ingo Schwarze
2018-11-19 14:19 ` Marcin „sirmacik” Karpezo
2018-11-19 16:07 ` Ingo Schwarze
2018-11-19 17:17 ` Marcin Karpezo
2018-11-19 14:07 ` Marcin „sirmacik” Karpezo [this message]
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