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authorwlemb <wlemb>2004-02-18 09:14:27 +0000
committerwlemb <wlemb>2004-02-18 09:14:27 +0000
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* font/devlj4/generate/special.awk: New script.
* font/devlj4/generate/Makefile (S): Use special.awk. * font/devlj4/*: Regenerated, including the following new files: Arial (AR, AB, AI, ABI), Times New Roman (TNRR, TNRB, TNRI, TNRBI), MS Symbol (SYMBOL), Wingdings (WINGDINGS). * NEWS: Document new lj4 fonts and revised hpftodit.
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@@ -84,11 +84,23 @@ Grolj4
o A new man page `lj4_font(5)' documents how fonts are accessed with
grolj4.
+o The built-in fonts for LJ4 and newer PCL 5 devices have been completely
+ revised, mainly to access as much glyphs as possible. They provided
+ metric files should be compatible with recent PCL 5 printers also.
+ Additionally, font description files have been added for the Arial and
+ Times New Roman family, the MS symbol, and Wingdings fonts.
+
Afmtodit
--------
o New option `-x' to prevent use of built-in Adobe Glyph List.
+Hpftodit
+--------
+
+o Completely revised to handle HP TrueType metric files also. See the
+ hpftodit manual page for more details.
+
Macro Packages
--------------
@@ -114,7 +126,7 @@ o Input encoding files for latin-9 (a.k.a. latin-0 and ISO 8859-15) and
and latin-2 only for -Tdvi and -Tutf8.
o Composite glyphs are now supported. To do this, a subset of the Adobe
- Glyph List (AGL) Algorithm as described in
+ Glyph List (AGL) Algorithm as described in
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/unicodegn.jsp
@@ -416,7 +428,7 @@ o Color support has been added to troff and pic (and to the device drivers
grops, grodvi, grotty, and grohtml -- other preprocessors and drivers will
follow). A new function `defcolor' defines colors; the escape sequence
`\m' sets the drawing color, the escape sequence `\M' specifies the
- background color for closed objects created with \D'...' commands.
+ background color for closed objects created with \D'...' commands.
`\m[]' and `\M[]' switch back to the previous color. `\m' and `\M'
correspond to the new troff output command sets starting with `m' and
`DF'. The device-specific default color is called `default' and can't be