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diff --git a/font/devutf8/NOTES b/font/devutf8/NOTES index 0e857e87..8e724703 100644 --- a/font/devutf8/NOTES +++ b/font/devutf8/NOTES @@ -1,53 +1,53 @@ -Note that all `charXXX' entity names have been removed from the font files. +Note that all \[charXXX] entity names have been removed from the font files. They don't make sense for Unicode. -The following from the original troff manual (by Ossanna and Kernighan) is -unmapped: +The following entity from the original troff manual (by Ossanna and +Kernighan) is unmapped: - \(bs shaded solid ball (Bell System logo, AT&T logo) + 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. +HYPHEN-MINUS is so ambiguous that it is unusable for serious typographic +use. -\(wp has been mapped to 0x2118, because according to unicode.org's -NamesList-3.0.0.txt, U+2118 "SCRIPT CAPITAL P" is really a Weierstrass p, +\[wp] has been mapped to 0x2118, because according to Unicode 4.1's +NamesList.txt, U+2118 SCRIPT CAPITAL P is really a Weierstrass `p', neither SCRIPT not CAPITAL. -The following line could be added; "space" is known to "devps" but are not -documented and not known to "devdvi" (actually, there is no space glyph -within the TeX system). +The following line could be added; \[space] is known to devps but is not +documented and not known to devdvi (actually, there is no space glyph within +the TeX system). -space 24 0 0x0020 + space 24 0 0x0020 -"devps" maps \(a~ and ~ to asciitilde, which is equivalent to 0x02DC, but +devps maps \[a~] and `~' to `asciitilde', which is equivalent to 0x02DC, but this glyph is just too small. We map them to 0x007E instead. -"devps" maps \(a^ and ^ to circumflex, which is equivalent to 0x02C6, but +devps maps \[a^] and `^' to `circumflex', which is equivalent to 0x02C6, but this glyph is just too small. We map them to 0x005E instead. -"devps" maps *U to Upsilon1, which is equivalent to 0x03D2. We map it to +devps maps \[*U] to `Upsilon1', which is equivalent to 0x03D2. We map it to 0x03A5 instead. -"devps" maps *W to Omega, which is equivalent to either 0x2126 or 0x03A9. +devps maps \[*W] to `Omega', which is equivalent to either 0x2126 or 0x03A9. We map it to 0x03A9. -"devps" maps *D to Delta, which is equivalent to either 0x2206 or 0x0394. +devps maps \[*D] to `Delta', which is equivalent to either 0x2206 or 0x0394. We map it to 0x0394. -Using unnamed characters ------------------------- +Adding Unicode 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 + u20AC 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/<version>/font/devutf8/. -- In your source file, use the notation \N'8364' where 8364 is the decimal - representation of 0x20AC. +- In your source file, use the notation \[u20AC] to access it. |