Re: [Groff] Typesetting Russian text using pdfmom

[Russell Hyer]

Responded via private email that this is a font level glyph issue.

Russ Hyer

On 5 November 2015 at 22:08, Russell Hyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Koz,
>
> The error you're getting relates to the glyphs being available (or
> not) in the font you're using in groff. So, switching out which font
> you're using or importing a new one into groff will resolve the issue
>
> Thanks
>
> Russ
>
> On 5 November 2015 at 20:35, Koz Ross <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm trying to compile a document full of Russian, which Emacs renders 
>> without issue. When I try to call 'pdfmom -K utf-8 sourcefile.mom > 
>> outputfile.pdf', I get a whole pile of warnings that look like this:
>>
>> sourcefile.mom:2: warning: can't find special character `u0410'
>> [these repeat a few times with different characters]
>> sourcefile.mom:3: warning: can't find special character `u0413'
>> [these repeat a few more times with different character codes]
>> sourcefile.mom:3: can't translate character code 208 to special character 
>> `-D' in transparent throughput
>> [these repeat a whole bunch of times, with a bunch of codes, many of which 
>> appear many times]
>>
>> The end result comes out full of garbage symbols. What am I doing wrong here?
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>> Koz Ross <address@hidden>
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