* printing utf
@ 1993-10-06 13:26 Steve_Kilbane
1993-10-07 4:15 ` James Matthew Farrow
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From: Steve_Kilbane @ 1993-10-06 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sam-fans
ok, so i've got sam and 9term running with the utf fonts - having produced
some files with utf in them, any idea how i'd print them on a postscript
printer..?
[ this is probably a dumb question, but then it took me 2.5 hours last night
just to get the X fonts installed. sigh. ]
steve
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1993-10-06 13:26 printing utf Steve_Kilbane
@ 1993-10-07 4:15 ` James Matthew Farrow
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From: steve@gec-epl.co.uk (Steve_Kilbane)
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Subject: printing utf
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ok, so i've got sam and 9term running with the utf fonts - having
produced some files with utf in them, any idea how i'd print them
on a postscript printer..?
[ this is probably a dumb question, but then it took me 2.5 hours
last night just to get the X fonts installed. sigh. ]
steve
Currently to print I am doing two things. I have a latin1 `device'
for troff which uses ISOLatin1Encoding for PostScript fonts rather than
the Adobe StandardEndcoding. I have a filter which reads utf files
and can produce plain ascii approximations (`;-)' for `☺' (a smiley)
for example) or troff codes when asked, so `→' (that's a right arrow)
becomes `\(->'). It's a hack, but hey, it gets Welsh poetry printed
with wcirumflex and ycircumflex!
I can make this available but it's written using bio at the moment
and I can't release that so I'd have to rewrite it. I also want a
more general solution to the problems `unutf' tackles. I originally
intended it for use in our department here as a MIME decoder for
utf-2 so the members of our department without 9terms could handle
utf-2 mail.
A more general solution again I've thought about but requires a
rethinking to some extent of the tools people use when printing.
To handle the printing of utf-2 strings in PostScript you'd need
something to decode the encoding at the PostScript level if you want
to include them in the strings themselves, perhaps something akin to
`(general utf string) utfshow'.
Matty.
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