Re: [Groff] Bitstream vera sans

2017-08-09 Thread Pedro A . López-Valencia
On 9/08/2017 9:11 a.m., John Gardner wrote: [too long] You've e-mailed me directly, so the rest of the mailing list won't hear you (assuming you haven't BCCed Mkkel in your reply). I've added the list's address for you. =) Do accept my apologies for the direct message. I hadn't my

Re: [Groff] Bitstream vera sans

2017-08-09 Thread John Gardner
> > *"FACT: You cannot convert losslessly between different Font formats."* Please highlight the part of my e-mail which mentions lossless conversion, because I alluded to no such thing. Conversion from one format to another usually involves some loss of data; but AFM files, to my understanding,

Re: [Groff] Bitstream vera sans

2017-08-08 Thread John Gardner
Hey there, If you have FontForge 's command-line tools installed, you can use this shell function to quickly convert fonts to AFM: $ convert-font Vera.ttf afm

Re: [Groff] Bitstream vera sans

2017-08-08 Thread mikkel meinike
Thanks Steffen I've used Peters font script before and been very happy about it. I just needed to understand it a bit more of what is actually involved in the steps. I'll have a look at that link you send me. Mikkel Den 8. aug. 2017 22.03 skrev "Steffen Nurpmeso" : Hi.

Re: [Groff] Bitstream vera sans

2017-08-08 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> Can any of you walk me through what I should do to use the > font 'bitstream vera sans' in my groff document? The font is > somehow available in my system because I use it in my terminal > (rxvt-unicode) If you use groff with the postscript device, I can help: 1. Create a copy of the font in

Re: [Groff] Bitstream vera sans

2017-08-08 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hi. mikkel meinike wrote: |Can any of you walk me through what I should do to use the font 'bitstream |vera sans' in my groff document? The font is somehow available in my system |because I use it in my terminal (rxvt-unicode) Peter Schaffter has written something that