Follow-up Comment #4, bug #67234 (group groff): At 2025-06-24T08:52:42-0400, Deri James wrote: > Follow-up Comment #2, bug #67234 (group groff): > On Tuesday, 24 June 2025 00:44:24 BST you wrote: >> Date: Mon 23 Jun 2025 11:44:21 PM GMT By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden> >> When rendering for 'ps' vs. 'pdf', I notice that in the latter, the >> Greek letters seem to sit ever so slightly above the baseline. >> >> I assume that this is an issue in the (embedded) font itself. >> >> Can this be fixed in "StandardSymSL.pfb"? > > Good catch. There is a way of correcting the glyphs, which I explain > in the attached pdf. The reason I have not corrected all the glyphs > is because "fontforge" is a bit mouse centric, one glyph took about > twenty minutes, I am sure it can be done quicker! I am also afraid of > accidentally moving nodes without noticing. If you are too busy to > help, and I will put it on my back burner to do a few at a time.
No worries--I'll take a crack at it. I think what I'll do is convert
the font to PFA format, move one glyph using fontforge, save it, then
diff(1) the before and after versions of the font file, and see if I can
use sed(1) to automatically update all the glyphs, ruling out accidental
movements on my own part.
I know nothing about how fonts are described in PFA format, so that plan
might not survive contact with the enemy. I don't know if it will be
easy to determine which control points are the bottoms of the bowls for
glyphs like alpha and beta, or where the self-intersection is in gamma,
and so forth.
> I'm experimenting with using email to interface with the bug tracker
> rather than the website, I don't think my first attempt made it,
> although I think you got a copy. Is there any instructions, i.e.
> attaching files, using html, etc..
Apart from the ones Savannah itself attached in emailed notifications,
"To reply to this notification, you have two options:" etc., not that I
know of.
At 2025-06-24T10:10:16-0400, Deri James wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #3, bug #67234 (group groff):
>
> For some reason the pdf got mangled, here it is again.
I've got it. Seems clear and straightforward--thanks!
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