On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 04:44:31PM +0200, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > > Had it not been for math, Heirloom troff would solve the problem > (knows unicode, typesets all the characters I need). However, for some > reason, it typesets math differently than when plan9 or p9p troff is > used. Basically, results from heirloom troff + heirloom eqn, or > heirloom troff + p9p eqn, are bad for some reason. > > Has somebody ever fought with this? (probably not...) >
This is one reason why TeX is preferable, giving it all in one program. The only problem---but circumventable---is that TeX by itself uses 256 characters for text (this is not the case for math: it uses more, and that's why unicode via utf-8 is not unachievable without changing hugely the engine), so one has to convert Unicode to some 8 bits encoding. The type1 fonts (standard PostScript fonts) are available with the TeX engine and with european encodings. And there is TeX for Plan9 via kerTeX: http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html This is probably not the answer if the question is "how to do with troff etc."; but this is an answer. -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
