Re: [Groff] Re: Resource forks in OSX

[Rob Scovell]

Thank you, Alejandro.

On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 10:53  AM, Alejandro López-Valencia 
wrote:
> First, you'll notice that in the first column there are no two-letter
> abbreviations, therefore you can't use strings such as \['a] or \('a for
> an aacute but rather \[decimalcode], e.g., \[43] for umlaut; you
> probably forgot to use the text encoding map or (even better yet) to
> create your own encoding map for this font when generating the metrics
> file. You could use use more meaningful names, say \[ehook] for ehook
> instead who knows what codepoint number it has in that font :).

Yes -- I used an empty text encoding map, as per the instructions in Ted's 
original post:

"   mapfile:

   touch null_mapfile

   (Normally, the mapfile gives pairs PS-name groff-name but
   IPA is so nasty it's better to leave this issue aside at this stage)."

I am referring to the chars in my test file by number:

[strathfillan:~/groff_fonts] rob% cat testipa.gr
.ft IPA
\N'123'
\N'68'
[strathfillan:~/groff_fonts] rob%

> Second, as this is definitely not a text font, and therefore it doesn't
> have the four different styles as expected (roman, bold, italic,
> bolditalic) you should generate the metrics file as *special* and add it
> as such in the DESC file.

¿Que? I have RTFM and I can't see how to do this. I have put 'special' in 
the font file and that doesn't work:

[strathfillan:~/groff_fonts] rob% head /usr/share/groff/font/devps/IPA
name IPA
internalname Times-PhoneticAlternate
special
spacewidth 250
kernpairs
charset
space   250     0       0040
---     250,82,190      3       0042    -- lowrising
---     500,700 3       0043    -- umlaut
---     333,656 3       0044    -- macron
[strathfillan:~/groff_fonts] rob%

Rob