From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> To: Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> Cc: kbd <kbd@lists.altlinux.org> Subject: Re: [kbd] kbd-1.15 lat1-16 font issues with groff-1.20.1 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:17:54 +0300 Message-ID: <49934E92.9080805@gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <d0239282eabaf6acc990ed5b73297d1d@quantum.linuxfromscratch.org> Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi Alexey, > > I'm viewing man pages using a combination of groff-1.20.1 and the lat1-16 > font from kbd-1.15. You can see the results of this at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~matthew/test-results/preconv.en_utf8.jpg. > > As you can see, the line-break character (U+2010) isn't displayed correctly. > > We used to workaround this with previous versions of Groff by substituting > U+2010, U+2212 to U+002D (minus sign). See It seems that these characters are not mapped at all. At least the U+2010. > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.4/chapter06/groff.html. Due to > a change in Groff, that substitution no longer applies. > > Is it possible to map those characters like that in the lat1-16 font itself? > That way, if there happen to be any other programs that output the > problematic characters, they'll display correctly without any further changes. > > If so, how might we go about this, and is this suitable for the upstream > Kbd package sources? I think we can map this characters if they not mapped at all. P.S. Add CC: kbd@lists. Anyone have any ideas ? -- Rgrds, legion
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 22:17 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2009-02-11 22:17 ` Alexey Gladkov [this message] 2009-02-12 16:12 ` Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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