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Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff
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Pierre-Jean Fichet |
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Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff |
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Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:38:22 +0100 |
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Hello Roy,
Roy Fisher <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 1/28/19 4:51 AM, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
> > masterpieces of typographic details.
> > 1) https://github.com/reffort/troffmanual/blob/master/troffdoc-mk.pdf
>
> While I won't disagree too loudly with the first part, that particular
> document is the exact opposite. It is a utility document, a gdiffmk
> markup that exists only to flag the location of changes that were made
> to the nroff/troff user's manual; it doesn't use paragraph adjustment at
> all.
I was not clear enough, sorry. I meant the document describes a tool
able to produce masterpieces of typographic details, not that the document
was such a masterpiece. ;)
> The description document has more detail about how to use the requests.
> It will probably be more useful initially than the nroff/troff user's
> manual. It can can be found at:
> https://github.com/reffort/typo-tests-documents/blob/master/typotests-doc.pdf
I am discovering here you're the author of these changes. That's a fantastic
work you've made. It's really encouraging me to try heirloom again, and I
hope, other troff enthusiasts too.
> I downloaded utmac some time ago when you first posted about it. There
> are some interesting ideas in there, but I haven't studied it in as much
> detail as I would like.
It is honestly too much based on my own needs to be useful as something
more than an inspiration.
Kind regards,
Pierre-Jean.
- [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Richard Morse, 2019/01/21
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Pierre-Jean Fichet, 2019/01/22
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, aksr, 2019/01/22
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Pierre-Jean Fichet, 2019/01/24
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Roy Fisher, 2019/01/25
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Pierre-Jean Fichet, 2019/01/27
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Roy Fisher, 2019/01/27
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Pierre-Jean Fichet, 2019/01/28
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Roy Fisher, 2019/01/28
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff,
Pierre-Jean Fichet <=
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- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, aksr, 2019/01/30
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Roy Fisher, 2019/01/31
Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Ruben Schuller, 2019/01/22
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Mircea Hossu, 2019/01/22
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Boss Hog, 2019/01/25
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Mircea Hossu, 2019/01/26
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Robert Thorsby, 2019/01/26
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, John Gardner, 2019/01/26
- Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff, Boss Hog, 2019/01/27