URL:
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Summary: [afmtodit] recognize groff's ligatures when encoded
with underscores in a font file
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: barx
Submitted: Sun 24 Mar 2024 07:32:58 PM CDT
Category: Utilities
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Follow-up Comments:
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Date: Sun 24 Mar 2024 07:32:58 PM CDT By: Dave <barx>
Ten years ago, Tadziu pointed out
(http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2013-11/msg00016.html) that "afmtodit assumes
[the five ligatures groff knows] will be called 'fi', 'fl', 'ff', 'ffi', and
'ffl', but in the new fonts they are called 'f_i', 'f_l', 'f_f', 'f_f_i', and
'f_f_l'." afmtodit should recognize these alternate ligature names.
In a followup post (https://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2013-11/msg00025.html),
Werner deems expanding afmtodit's default_ligatures hash in this manner a
"worse alternative" to doing the ligature redesign called for in bug #64344.
But it also seems a much simpler one, so unless someone is ready to jump on
#64344, this afmtodit tweak could be a useful stopgap.
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