> > I believe that an installation should attempt to build the metric
> > files from the local fonts, [...]
>
> For the sake of argument, I will contest this. The default setup
> for the ps device -- analogous to, for example, the lj4 device --
> should create output that can be sent to the corre
On 01/05/08 03:59:10, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote (in two posts):
> For the sake of argument, I will contest
> this. The default setup for the ps device
> -- analogous to, for example, the lj4 device
> -- should create output that can be sent to
> the corresponding printer -- Postscript or
> PCL -- usi
> Then there is the problem of adding additional faces. I have a
> large collection acquired or purchased from several sources.
> These are installed by a script which looks up a database.
> How do other groff users do this?
> I'm willing to release what I've done.
I am, too, but I'll readily ad
> I believe that an installation should attempt to build
> the metric files from the local fonts, [...]
For the sake of argument, I will contest this. The default
setup for the ps device -- analogous to, for example,
the lj4 device -- should create output that can be sent
to the corresponding pr
The devps metric files distributed with groff are I believe
computed from the Adobe versions of the faces. Many of us
(particularly Linux users) are using `clones' of these
contributed by URW. Although supposedly identical, they
are not.
Although similar the sizes are slightly different, and in
a
