Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I have tested the new preprocessor with the groff options -Kencoding and -k This is all very encouraging. Nice to hear that! However, you should upgrade to the current CVS (from today); I've just found a serious bug in subfont handling which made grops sometime insert a character where

Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Werner, Try the groff2uni perl script below. Note that you will get warnings like Wide character in print at groff2uni.pl line 17, line 8. Any Perl expert here who can fix that? The good news is it's a long time since I consdered myself that. The bad news is they've gone and

Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
It seems binmode is now used for lots more than specifying the binary mode of a file handle. I think this is the right way to fix it. Thanks! Werner

RE: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-20 Thread Ted Harding
On 20-May-07 09:56:15, Sigfrid Lundberg wrote: [...] I've a manuscript of a book containing medieval greek quotations and to format those I installed a subset of kerkis fonts (quoting from my download file), namely: Kerkis-Italic Kerkis-Italic.pfa Kerkis

Re: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-20 Thread Sigfrid Lundberg
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Sigfrid, It didn't work at all -- groff tried to take all greek characters from the special fonts S and SS. Then I switched font family temporarily using \FK .. \F[]. Then I got partial success: All diachritical characters come out as KR,

RE: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-20 Thread Sigfrid Lundberg
On Sun, 20 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20-May-07 09:56:15, Sigfrid Lundberg wrote: [...] I've a manuscript of a book containing medieval greek quotations and to format those I installed a subset of kerkis fonts (quoting from my download file), namely: Kerkis-Italic