Re: [Groff] groff_ms manpage patch: missing header/footer info

2006-03-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
The groff_ms manpage doesn't describe the header footer macros (HT, PT, BT). I've attached a patch containing brief descriptions of each. Thanks, applied. Please do the same for groff.texinfo. Here's the patch. Not yet :-) Werner

[Groff] incorrect position of 'caron' glyph??

2006-03-07 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
hi everybody, I noted the following. when defining .ds Macasek Mac\['a]\o'\[ah]s'ek .ds macasek Mac\['a]\[vs]ek .DS \*[Macasek] \*[macasek] .DE one gets an optically pleasing 'scaron' (\[vs] (second line), but a seemingly slightly off-center (to the left) 'caron' (\[ah]) if you overstrike

Re: [Groff] Re: Composed glyphs - quick and dirty solution

2006-03-07 Thread Ted Harding
On 06-Mar-06 Werner LEMBERG wrote: Again, I've no idea :-) The code snippet was taken from ps.tmac, without analyzing it in detail. I've simply forgotten how it works. The answer here is (or should be) that if you place an accent over a skew character (e.g. italic), you need to offset

Re: [Groff] Re: Composed glyphs - quick and dirty solution

2006-03-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Again, I've no idea :-) The code snippet was taken from ps.tmac, without analyzing it in detail. I've simply forgotten how it works. The answer here is (or should be) that if you place an accent over a skew character (e.g. italic), you need to offset it slightly to the right so that it

[Groff] groff special PS fonts

2006-03-07 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Werner, concerning groff-special PS fonts FreeEuro, Symbol-Slanted and ZapfDingbats-Reverse. 1) Why afm files are not installed in devps folder? If someone uses the fonts, having corresponding afms around would be nice. 2) pfa files for SS and ZDR lack %%EndComments comment,

Re: [Groff] Both Headers AND Footers with Mom Macros

2006-03-07 Thread Larry Kollar
Peter Schaffter wrote: ---End recipe for getting both headers and footers--- You should probably copy that to the Groff Wiki I'm interested to know how you intend to use the combo of headers and footers. If your situation is a common one, I may macro-ize the above to save other users

Re: [Groff] Re: groff special PS fonts

2006-03-07 Thread James Cloos
Werner == Werner LEMBERG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Werner I assume that some `local' UniqueID is appropriate. These days Adobe recommends not using UniqueID in fonts. There are very few printers left in service that can actually benefit if each font has an UniqueID. It would be best to drop

Re: [Groff] Help: male and female symbols?

2006-03-07 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
Does any of the fonts in the standard distributions of groff contain characters depicting the standard male and female symbols? (The circle with the oblique arrow above, and the circle with the cross below.) Inquiring minds would like to know. As far as I know, there aren't any in the

[Groff] Re: PS fonts versions

2006-03-07 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Werner, On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Actually, I don't consider the whole issue as very urgently because until now noone has reported problems w.r.t. missing characters in the standard PS fonts. On the other hand, there are probably just a handful Turkish groff users which

[Groff] Re: PS fonts versions

2006-03-07 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Werner, On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote: until now noone has reported problems w.r.t. missing characters in the standard PS fonts. On the other hand, there are probably just a handful Turkish groff users which use the original PS Adobe fonts together with groff. What about