Re: preconv generates a good unicode escape but groff can't find special character

[Oliver Corff]

Hi,

can you please post a minimal example? I have the same problem with
non-mom texts (usually -ms), a good handful of the characters I need
(including your c hacek) trigger the same warning.

Thank you,

Oliver.


On 06/12/2020 17:53, Filip Banák wrote:
> Hi.
>
> First of all, I swear it worked this morning. Then suddenly I process my
> .mom file and the 'č' character is gone.
>
> This is the command and output:
> preconv file.mom | pdfmom > file.pdf
> troff: tema.mom:11: warning: can't find special character 'u0063_030C'
>
> I checked the output of preconv and it definitely outputs the right unicode
> codepoint \[u010D].
> In LibreOffice Writer, if I select the GNU FreeSans font that I use with
> the mom document and insert that unicode codepoint everything shows as
> expected.
>
> I am running Arch linux, groff 1.22.4.
>
> I started learning groff a few days ago and now I can't continue, though I
> would love to.
> Thank You for any help.