Re: grops question

[Aharon Robbins]

Thanks! This looks to be just what I need. I'll try it out.

Arnold

> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:47:09 +0200 (CEST)
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: grops question
> From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
>
> > Hi.  I have some additional postscript fonts that I like to have
> > available.  Every time I install Linux I have to copy these into the
> > /usr/share/.../devps directory and update the download and DESC
> > files.
> > 
> > Is there some way to specify a search path (e.g., an environment
> > variable) so that I can keep my personal fonts off in /usr/local/ or
> > $HOME somewhere and then grops will find things?  Then it's one less
> > thing to remember to do when I update my linux dist or build groff
> > from scratch.
>
> From the troff(1) man page (the grops(1) man page refers to it):
>
>        GROFF_FONT_PATH
>               A colon separated list of directories in which to search
>               for the devname directory.  troff will scan directories
>               given in the -F option before these, and in standard
>               directories (/usr/local/share/groff/site-font,
>               /usr/local/share/groff/1.20.1/font, /usr/lib/font) after
>               these.
>
> [The list of fonts is prepended to the default directories.]
>
> Note, however, that groff reads only a single `download' file (the
> first one found in the font path).
>
> > As a separate question, why in the world is Fedora still shipping
> > groff 1.18.x?  (Yes, I know is this GNU list, but maybe y'all know
> > or can do something about it.)
>
> Sadly, openSuSE does the same...  Reason is that there is some
> contributed support (mainly) for Japanese and simplified Chinese in
> 1.18.1 which I have always refused to add since it is an ad-hoc
> solution, and this patch doesn't apply easily to more recent groff
> versions.  Various people (including me) tried to improve Unicode
> support in groff but failed to do so, mainly due to lack of time.
>
>
>     Werner