On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:22 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > i was just wondering because all these special unicode > characters work with the LucidaSans font. and the > /sys/lib/postscript/troff/R file *suggested* to me that > it should fall back to the Lucida font for special > characters... > > how are the troff font descriptions in /sys/lib/troff/font/devutf > generated?
i don't know, sorry. i worked it all out once but i've forgotten it. the different directories are consulted by different tools. troff uses one to find character metrics, and then tr2post uses another to map unicode code points to specific postscript (256-char) fonts. russ
