> The problems I have described exist in plan9port and heirloom > software. I haven't yet tried to what extent it also applies to plan9 > proper. And it seems you are suggesting some changes to the latter > software.
As I have tried, I really don't see any of the mentioned problems when using my plan9 machine directly; I only see the problems in the p9p and heirloom troff. Further, when I take the directory /sys/lib/postscript/font from plan9 and copy it to (replace with it) the contents of p9p's $PLAN9/postscript/font I get a result quite similar to the previously shown output of the heirloom suite, i.e., everything is present, however the square-root sign is wrongly placed. If you know any reason why the square-root symbol is ok on p9 and wrong on p9p (or also how to get it right), please tell... Thank you, Ruda PS.: The story shows that even when using Times Roman, some (quite usual) letters (like em-dash, dagger,...) are taken from Lucida Sans. This isn't particularly nice.
