Follow-up Comment #2, bug #64004 (group groff): Hi Branden,
Just a question loosely associated to this. The fallback characters in ps.tmac using schar defeat finding the precise glyph in a font pre-loaded in the DESC file. I am now using the Symbola font as one of the fonts in the DESC fonts line. I also run with DESC family set Tinos. Now groff_char.7 runs with no missing glyphs except \[bs]. However, if I look at what fonts are installed in the pdf I was surprised to see one character from the TR font included, it was the "/"! The reason is because ps.tmac has an schar fallback for \[ne] which perversely uses the "/" from TR. The Symbola font has a perfectly good glyph for \[ne] but the only way to defeat the fallback is with "\f[Symbola]\[ne]\fP". In the attached screenshot the fallback glyph is on the left and the Symbola glyph is on the right. When groff was first developed type 1 fonts had a few hundred glyphs but these days glyph coverage is much larger and fallbacks get in the way. A fallback which approximates a glyph is never as good as a custom designed glyph in a font, so fallbacks should be the glyph of last resort. Maybe we need a new zchar which is used after the DESC fonts have been checked. (It's even got it's own theme tune! https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=zcars+tune&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dj54YES7umn4 ) (file #57617) _______________________________________________________ Additional Item Attachment: Name: Screenshot_20250903_162122.png Size: 6KiB <https://file.savannah.gnu.org/file/Screenshot_20250903_162122.png?file_id=57617> AGPL NOTICE These attachments are served by Savane. You can download the corresponding source code of Savane at https://savannah.gnu.org/source/savane-d9f300700bf6ad45f2663b74162cf6ff60fef856.tar.gz _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64004> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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