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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2022-11-07 06:59:53 -0600
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2022-11-12 13:17:16 -0600
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INSTALL.extra: Revise.
* Place "URW fonts" discussion into its own subsection due to length. * Clarify that "test-groff" is located in the build directory.
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@@ -128,17 +128,20 @@ requires the 'pkg-config' program to be installed on your system, as
well as the library's C header files--on a package-based host system,
this can mean installing uchardet's '-dev' or '-devel' package.
-The 'configure' script searches for fonts originating with the URW
-foundry; these are metrically-compatible replacements for the Adobe
-PostScript Level 2 base 35 fonts required by that standard. These URW
-fonts are packaged with Ghostscript and in various derivative versions.
-The Adobe fonts are not free software, but the replacements, named
-"Nimbus Roman", "Nimbus Sans", and "Nimbus Mono", and so forth, are.
-The PostScript standard and early versions of the PDF standard assumed
-that these base fonts will be supplied by the rendering device (a
-printer or PDF viewer). Nowadays the PDF standard expects all fonts to
-be embedded in the document; if groff's gropdf(1) output driver knows
-where to find these fonts, you can use its "-e" option for this purpose.
+URW fonts
+---------
+
+The 'configure' script searches for PostScript Type 1 fonts originating
+with the URW foundry; these are metrically compatible replacements for
+the Adobe PostScript Level 2 base 35 fonts required by that standard.
+These URW fonts are packaged with Ghostscript and in various derivative
+versions. The Adobe fonts are not free software, but the replacements,
+often named "Nimbus Roman", "Nimbus Sans", and "Nimbus Mono", and so
+forth, are. The PostScript and early PDF standards assumed that these
+base fonts would be supplied by the rendering device (a printer or PDF
+viewer). Nowadays the PDF standard expects all fonts to be embedded in
+the document; if groff's gropdf(1) output driver knows where to find
+these fonts, you can use its "-e" option for this purpose.
The build process populates "Foundry" and "download" files that tell
gropdf where to find their groff font descriptions and the font files
@@ -149,6 +152,7 @@ script where to find them. If you never use groff to generate
PostScript or PDF documents, you can ignore any output from the
'configure' script about URW fonts.
+
Miscellaneous
=============
@@ -174,7 +178,7 @@ to run it.
You can also try it out from the directory you used to build it. A
script called 'test-groff' is supplied for this purpose. It sets up
environment variables to allow groff to run without being installed.
-For example, the command
+For example, from the directory where you built groff, the command
./test-groff -man -Tascii src/roff/groff/groff.1 | less -R