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commit 6ae1e6ca7b8356d39d2dc0289dffa9a348273692
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Dec 6 04:39:01 2025 -0600
groff(7): Add subsection "Special fonts".
...synced from our Texinfo manual.
---
man/groff.7.man | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index 909c48c6f..665a70a44 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -7857,6 +7857,52 @@ associate abstract styles and font names with mounting
positions.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
+.SS "Special fonts"
+.\" ====================================================================
+.
+.\" BEGIN Keep (roughly) parallel with groff.texi node "Special Fonts".
+Special fonts are those that the formatter searches,
+in mounting position order,
+when it cannot find a requested glyph in the selected font.
+.
+Typically,
+they are declared as such in their description files
+.\" @footnote{@xref{Font Description File Format}.}
+(see
+.MR groff_font @MAN5EXT@ ),
+and
+contain unstyled glyphs.
+.
+The \[lq]Symbol\[rq] and \[lq]Zapf Dingbats\[rq] fonts
+of the PostScript and PDF standards are examples.
+.
+Ordinarily,
+only typesetters have special fonts.
+.
+.
+.P
+GNU
+.IR troff 's \" GNU
+.B \%special
+and
+.B \%fspecial
+requests permit a document
+to supplement the set of fonts the device configures
+for glyph search
+without having to use
+the
+.B fp
+request to manipulate the list of mounting positions,
+which can be tedious\[em]by default,
+GNU
+.I troff \" GNU
+mounts 40 fonts at startup
+when using the
+.B ps
+device.
+.\" END Keep (roughly) parallel with groff.texi node "Special Fonts".
+.
+.\" ====================================================================
.SH Hyphenation
.\" ====================================================================
.
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