Re: [Groff] Doubly slanted Greek in PDF

[Robert D. Goulding]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> Here a test document:
>
>   \[*a]\[lh]
>   .br
>   \f[S]\[*a]\f[]\[rh]
>
> My 6.51 displays the PS output fine; the ps2pdf output is almost OK:
> the right hand symbol is properly mirrored but the position is wrong.
>
> 8.00 is worse: In PS output, the right hand symbol is mirrored but the
> horizontal position is wrong.  With ps2pdf, the right hand symbol has
> the wrong position and isn't mirrored, and the alpha is doubly
> slanted.

Both GNU gs 6.53 and the brand new GNU gs 7.06 place the right-hand symbol
in the wrong place horizontally in the pdf (though properly mirrored) -
there is no problem in viewing PS.  Neither exhibits the problem of
double-slanted Greek in the pdf. - R.

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