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Re: [Groff] What is the current state of Unicode support in Groff?
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [Groff] What is the current state of Unicode support in Groff? |
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Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:21:39 +0100 |
Hi again Mike,
> It helps a lot with reading UTF-8 if the output devices support the
> runes.
I should have said, for PostScript I think that can be a problem with
"symbol" fonts being needed? Others will know more, I'm sure.
Brian wrote:
> It all worked pretty well, though there were a lot of bandaids to
> handle indexing, contents, PDF, etc.
I forgot to cover this; rather than go the `groff | ps2pdf - foo.pdf'
root, there's now a gropdf(1) backend. Though I've little experience
with it, its author is on the list. :-)
http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/gropdf.html#gropdf
http://manned.org/gropdf.1
BTW, http://manned.org/groff_char.7 says
Another special convention is the handling of glyphs with names
directly derived from a Unicode code point; this is discussed below.
but I see no discussion?
Cheers, Ralph.