From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Deri <deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk>
Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <branden@debian.org>, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems building the unifont PFA and DIT files for the PDF book
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 22:08:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZiVyLv5LF2uGf1gT@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2272286.muIFQpQJ8V@pip>
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Hi Deri,
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 08:58:03PM +0100, Deri wrote:
> This is one of Branden's changes to groff. Previously a missing spacewidth parameter was
> ignored and groff would calculate a value. As far as I know noone has ever complained
> about the typography groff produced when using a font with no spacewidth parameter, it
> is now an error, but it does not stop it computing a value and continuing. For pdf and ps,
> using the default DESC files for the devices, the computed value is 333.
>
> However, UnifontM is a bit mapped mono font where all western glyphs have a width of
> 500, so it would make sense edit that value into the UnifontM file by hand. For other
> language glyphs the fixed width is 1000 but they don't normally need a space character
> between glyphs, but you can adjust with .ss if necessary.
>
> I would advise to use:-
>
> .special TINOR UnifontM S
Yep, I used that order, following the patch you sent me a few weeks ago.
BTW, why do you call it TINOR and not TinosR? Also, why UnifontM and
not UnifontR? What's that M mean?
> Since this is the order you would like the fonts searched, typographically TINOR is much
> better than UnifontM because the glyphs are drawn not bit mapped, so if a glyph exists in
> both prefer to use TINOR.
Yep.
> If you want to produce man pages in CJK languages, it would be much better to install a
> proper CJK font rather than rely on UnifontM, I suggested to use it to fill the gaps in the
> iso-8859 pages. Now you want complete pages in other languages for shadow, you
> should consider installing an appropriate font. I have attached two pdfs, one using
> UnifontM and the other a proper CJK font. If you use your pdf viewers zoom control you
> will soon see the difference in quality.
Yeah, I was looking for a font that's in a common Debian package. I
found some, but they were in very obscure packages that I prefer not to
depend on. I'll keep searching.
Have a lovely night!
Alex
> Cheers
>
> Deri
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-20 12:26 Problems building the unifont PFA and DIT files for the PDF book Alejandro Colomar
2024-04-20 15:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-04-20 20:11 ` Brian Inglis
2024-04-20 22:32 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-04-20 22:20 ` Alejandro Colomar
[not found] ` <2272286.muIFQpQJ8V@pip>
2024-04-21 20:08 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
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