[bug #62921] want another monospaced font in the default set

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #62921 (project groff):


[comment #1 comment #1:]
> The main practical problem here is that while we could certainly generate
_groff_ font descriptions file for some or all of those, and ship them, users
_still_ won't get those fonts in the output they generate unless they have the
font files installed where the output driver programs, like _grops_ and
_gropdf_, can find them.
> 
> This is a matter of populating the "download" files that these programs
respectively read.
> 
> But if that problem is addressed, generating the fonts' descriptions in
_troff_/_groff_ format isn't the long pole anymore.
> 
> Do you agree?

Hi, original submitter here. Yes, your solution would be fine, but I'm a bit
confused. For groff 1.22.4 in Fedora 36 I noticed there are 3 *.pfa_ files in
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devps/: freeeuro.pfa_, symbolsl.pfa_,
zapfdr.pfa_
Those files seem to be included with the source code distribution at
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.22.4.tar.gz . So couldn't that same
bundling be done for an additional monospaced font? The
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devps/freeeuro.afm and
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devps/freeeuro.pfa_ files are the only places
where the FreeEuro font exists on my Fedora system, as far as I know. I'm just
confused on why the corresponding afm/pfa files for a new monospaced font
couldn't also be included, in addition to being mentioned in the
/usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devps/download file like FreeEuro is. Unless I'm
wrong and those were added by the groff package maintainers for Fedora.

Thanks.


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