URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68023>
Summary: extend syntax of fourth field of glyph descriptions
in font description files
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Fri 06 Feb 2026 11:50:10 AM UTC
Category: General
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: Postponed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Fri 06 Feb 2026 11:50:10 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2026-02/msg00017.html
I wrote...
> All of the font descriptions [for the "pdf" output device in _groff_ 1.24.0]
> add a comment field that [Deri] wanted so that gropdf could infer a Unicode
> code point for each glyph. (Maybe for _groff_ 1.25, [we could] change that
> by extending the syntax of the fourth field of a glyph description, so that
> "36" becomes "36,u0024" or something like that. Parsing comments for
> semantic information is a fraught business.)
Born postponed.
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