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[groff] 11/40: INSTALL.extra: Revise.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 11/40: INSTALL.extra: Revise.
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:43:36 -0500 (EST)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 46d60aac037dc06fb1019f88e10c96b25d3e3cde
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Nov 7 06:59:53 2022 -0600

    INSTALL.extra: Revise.
    
    * Place "URW fonts" discussion into its own subsection due to length.
    * Clarify that "test-groff" is located in the build directory.
---
 INSTALL.extra | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL.extra b/INSTALL.extra
index a177cb25c..42688d3cd 100644
--- a/INSTALL.extra
+++ b/INSTALL.extra
@@ -128,17 +128,20 @@ requires the 'pkg-config' program to be installed on your 
system, as
 well as the library's C header files--on a package-based host system,
 this can mean installing uchardet's '-dev' or '-devel' package.
 
-The 'configure' script searches for fonts originating with the URW
-foundry; these are metrically-compatible replacements for the Adobe
-PostScript Level 2 base 35 fonts required by that standard.  These URW
-fonts are packaged with Ghostscript and in various derivative versions.
-The Adobe fonts are not free software, but the replacements, named
-"Nimbus Roman", "Nimbus Sans", and "Nimbus Mono", and so forth, are.
-The PostScript standard and early versions of the PDF standard assumed
-that these base fonts will be supplied by the rendering device (a
-printer or PDF viewer).  Nowadays the PDF standard expects all fonts to
-be embedded in the document; if groff's gropdf(1) output driver knows
-where to find these fonts, you can use its "-e" option for this purpose.
+URW fonts
+---------
+
+The 'configure' script searches for PostScript Type 1 fonts originating
+with the URW foundry; these are metrically compatible replacements for
+the Adobe PostScript Level 2 base 35 fonts required by that standard.
+These URW fonts are packaged with Ghostscript and in various derivative
+versions.  The Adobe fonts are not free software, but the replacements,
+often named "Nimbus Roman", "Nimbus Sans", and "Nimbus Mono", and so
+forth, are.  The PostScript and early PDF standards assumed that these
+base fonts would be supplied by the rendering device (a printer or PDF
+viewer).  Nowadays the PDF standard expects all fonts to be embedded in
+the document; if groff's gropdf(1) output driver knows where to find
+these fonts, you can use its "-e" option for this purpose.
 
 The build process populates "Foundry" and "download" files that tell
 gropdf where to find their groff font descriptions and the font files
@@ -149,6 +152,7 @@ script where to find them.  If you never use groff to 
generate
 PostScript or PDF documents, you can ignore any output from the
 'configure' script about URW fonts.
 
+
 Miscellaneous
 =============
 
@@ -174,7 +178,7 @@ to run it.
 You can also try it out from the directory you used to build it.  A
 script called 'test-groff' is supplied for this purpose.  It sets up
 environment variables to allow groff to run without being installed.
-For example, the command
+For example, from the directory where you built groff, the command
 
   ./test-groff -man -Tascii src/roff/groff/groff.1 | less -R
 



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