[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

[T. Kurt Bond]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60930>

                 Summary: Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script
into groff
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: tkurtbond
            Submitted on: Sat 17 Jul 2021 12:14:11 AM UTC
                Category: Utilities
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: New feature
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Script location: https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-05.html#install-font

Use of the install-font.sh script makes installing fonts for groff much, much
easier.  It should be integrated into groff.

== Preliminary Tasks ==

* Make the script portable by removing dependencies on bash-specific features
- see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2020-04/msg00079.html
and downthread; thread continues, not linked to the previous one, at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2020-05/msg00000.html
* Write a man page
* Write some test cases to ensure it works as expected

== Mailing List Discussion ==

* Initial suggestion with tasks involved:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-07/msg00061.html
* Further discussion of tasks and links to previous discussion:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-07/msg00065.html
* Difficulties in making the script general enough to handle the
inconsistences of distributions due to different locations or absence of the
site-font directory:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-07/msg00063.html
** https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-07/msg00071.html




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