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Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?
From: |
Pedro A. López-Valencia |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose? |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:15:52 -0500 |
On 2/25/06, Larry Kollar wrote:
>
> How much work would it be to hook into whatever system-wide printer
> drivers there may be?
A lot.
> This is something I've been pondering for a
> while, and I don't even have a clue how gtroff figures out glyph
> widths (is there some communication between gtroff & the
> postprocessor?). It would be nice to have access to all the TrueType
> and PostScript fonts installed on the system without having to build
> metric files and so forth.
>
> If I were to poke at this, where would I start?
I've given a lot of thought to this as well, but I'm not the coder
kind ;-) There is already a possible path: fontconfig and freetype2. I
wonder if they could be used as backend for a utility that extracted
all the metrics information for a truetype font and dumped a properly
formed AFM. I know that can be done with freetype1 (as in ttftoafm and
ttftot42) but that library is obsolete...
Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/02/22
- Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?, Bruno Haible, 2006/02/22
- Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/02/22
- Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?, Bruno Haible, 2006/02/23
- Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/02/23
- Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?, Bruno Haible, 2006/02/24
- Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/02/23