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Diffstat (limited to 'font/devutf8/NOTES')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/font/devutf8/NOTES b/font/devutf8/NOTES index 064b7baf..b517c591 100644 --- a/font/devutf8/NOTES +++ b/font/devutf8/NOTES @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ The following from the original troff manual (by Ossanna and Kernighan) is unmapped: - \(bs solid ball + \(bs shaded solid ball (Bell System logo, AT&T logo) Character 0x002D has not been given a name because its Unicode name "HYPHEN-MINUS" is so ambiguous that it's unusable for serious typographic use. @@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ Character 0x002D has not been given a name because its Unicode name The following are mentioned in the original troff manual but not in groff_char.7: - \(sr square root - \(rn overline - \(is integral sign + \(sr square root + \(rn overline + \(is integral sign The following, mentioned in the original troff manual, are only approximate: - \(lk middle part of big left curly brace - \(rk middle part of big right curly brace + \(lk middle part of big left curly brace + \(rk middle part of big right curly brace \(bv has been mapped to 0x2502, not 0x2759, because it appears to mean "bar vertical", not "bold vertical". @@ -67,9 +67,13 @@ to 0x240D instead. instead. The line + char173 24 0 0x00AD + has been removed, because tmac.tty contains the line -".if c\[char173] .shc \[char173]" + +.if c\[char173] .shc \[char173] + (i.e. if char173 is defined, then tell the troff engine that it shall use char173 as soft hyphen - otherwise it will use hy = HYPHEN), and char173 in Markus Kuhn's UCS-fonts looks more like a minus sign than like a hyphen. @@ -80,12 +84,18 @@ HYPHEN, for use when a line break has been established within a word" - which is exactly groff's use of 'shc'. Using unnamed characters: + Assume you want to use a Unicode character not provided in the list, say U+20AC. You need to do two things: -- Add a line "--- 24 0 0x20AC" (the second column is - computed as 24 * wcwidth(0x20AC)) to the file R.proto, or, when groff - is already installed, to the four fonts files in + +- Add a line + + --- 24 0 0x20AC + + (the second column is computed as 24 * wcwidth(0x20AC)) to the file + R.proto, or, when groff is already installed, to the four fonts files in $(prefix)/share/groff/font/devutf8/. + - In your source file, use the notation \N'8364' where 8364 is the decimal representation of 0x20AC. |