* Re: [kbd] kbd-1.15 lat1-16 font issues with groff-1.20.1 @ 2009-02-11 22:17 ` Alexey Gladkov 2009-02-12 16:12 ` Lefteris Dimitroulakis 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Alexey Gladkov @ 2009-02-11 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Matthew Burgess; +Cc: kbd 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [kbd] kbd-1.15 lat1-16 font issues with groff-1.20.1 2009-02-11 22:17 ` [kbd] kbd-1.15 lat1-16 font issues with groff-1.20.1 Alexey Gladkov @ 2009-02-12 16:12 ` Lefteris Dimitroulakis 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Lefteris Dimitroulakis @ 2009-02-12 16:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux console tools development discussion [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1562 bytes --] Στις Thursday 12 February 2009 00:17:54 ο/η Alexey Gladkov έγραψε: > 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. > I don't see any problem so I am attaching newlat1-16.psfu with new mappings U+2010, U+2012, U+2013 and U+2212 to U+002d. If someone wish to play with and change mappings here it is: $psfgettable lat1-16.psfu > table.txt Editing table.txt ---> newtable.txt with our preferences and then $psfaddtable lat1-16.psfu newtable.txt newlat1-16.psfu. cheers Lefteris [-- Attachment #2: newlat1-16.psfu.gz --] [-- Type: application/x-gzip, Size: 1984 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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