Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-24 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Matthias Apitz wrote: > I have an older 9-CURRENT (r21, from end of Octubre) and its ports > does not have ports/textproc/groff; I was 1st thinking in some mistake > of me on CVS checkout, but when one looks into the ports page: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/textproc/groff/ >

Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, July 23, 2011 a las 08:25:10PM +, Christian Weisgerber escribió: > > I've checked groff 1.21 from the ports but it seems to understand > > only making UTF-8 output with its driver -Tutf8. Is there a way to make > > it understand UTF-8 as input > > Use the preconv(1) command

Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-23 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Matthias Apitz wrote: > The critical part seems to be: the text is UTF-8 and converting this > to ISO 8859-1 is not an option. It's a Library Management System we > just ported to Unicode, and we don't want to fall back in printing :-) > > I've checked groff 1.21 from the ports but it seems to u

Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:54:29PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > If you want to produce postscript output from groff, you will have to deal > > with postscript fonts. The usual Type 1 fonts are single-byte fonts. Groff > > only deals with Latin-1 characters (see groff_char(7)). > > What is La

Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-19 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, July 19, 2011 a las 01:54:29PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey escribió: > > If you want to produce postscript output from groff, you will have to deal > > with postscript fonts. The usual Type 1 fonts are single-byte fonts. Groff > > only deals with Latin-1 characters (see groff_char(7)).

Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> If you want to produce postscript output from groff, you will have to deal > with postscript fonts. The usual Type 1 fonts are single-byte fonts. Groff > only deals with Latin-1 characters (see groff_char(7)). What is Latin-1 ? ( BTW is Latin a common misnomer ? - I recall Latin by

Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Matthias Sorry, I cant help on the OCR, though I had a quick try eith /usr/ports/graphics/claraocr > In the '90 I have used for a lot of my internal and external papers and > letter the groff suite (gtbl, groff, ...) with good results. Me too. I still do. FYI here is my bsd make macro set

Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:49:39PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Hello, > > In the '90 I have used for a lot of my internal and external papers and > letter the groff suite (gtbl, groff, ...) with good results. > > I've now a project where it would fit really nicely. It's making > (Postscr

Re: groff && UTF-8

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:49:39 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Hello, > > In the '90 I have used for a lot of my internal and external papers and > letter the groff suite (gtbl, groff, ...) with good results. > > I've now a project where it would fit really nicely. It's making > (Postscript or

groff && UTF-8

2011-07-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, In the '90 I have used for a lot of my internal and external papers and letter the groff suite (gtbl, groff, ...) with good results. I've now a project where it would fit really nicely. It's making (Postscript or PCL) printout of some pages like this example one: http://www.unixarea.de/