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Re: [Groff] mission statement 3
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: [Groff] mission statement 3 |
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Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:02:15 -0400 |
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2014, Boss Hog wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:34:27AM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> >
> > My feeling is that the quality of the line-breaking algorithm is something
> > that will be noticed by typography nerds, but the difficulty of installing
> > new typefaces...
Have you checked out the 'install-font.sh' script at
http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-05.html#install-font
Takes about two seconds to install a font.
> > ...is something that will be noticed by any groff user who
> > wants anything other than Times or Helvetica. So there is some argument
> > that wider font support ought to be higher priority.
> >
>
> Perhaps include more fonts in a seperate groff-fonts-extras package?
Licensing hell, unless the fonts are released freely. In my
experience, very few freely-available fonts are of sufficient
caliber to go in a groff-fonts-extra package except the obvious
ones like CM and Liberation.
> Personally I enjoy adjusting the kerning pairs via the groff font, leaving
> the oringinal font intact for other applications.
Interesting comment. I have a large library of fonts that all
started out as .ttf and .otf. and got converted to Type1 for use
with groff. I adjust kern pairs in the font files all the time.
Very handy. But native support for other types doesn't preclude
converting to Type1 to take advantage of this.
--
Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca
Re: [Groff] mission statement 3, Ulrich Lauther, 2014/03/30
Re: [Groff] [groff] mission statement 3, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/03/28