Re: [Groff] Doubly slanted Greek in PDF

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 08:24 p.m. 08/04/2003, Robert D. Goulding wrote:
> Though I'm guessing that 7.05 has the problem with ZDR which Werner drew
> our attention to.  BTW, just tried pstill on the same file, and it also
> places the \(rh glyph in the wrong place.  Can anyone try out Acrobat on
> Werner's file?

Yes, it has the problem.

I think the problem is in the actual postscript programs used to create 
both synthetic fonts, as Tadziu Hoffman has already pointed out elsewhere, 
JawsPDF exhibits similar problems, and it is 95% compatible with Adobe 
Distiller 4. That's the reason I made the GroffDingbats font ;-)

BTW, I have a type 1 version of the BBDing METAFONT at CTAN, very similar 
to Zapf Dingbats, that already contains both the \(rh and \(lh symbols, 
among others. I have uploaded it to my home page, see 
http://dradul.tripod.com/. It´d make me happy donating it to the project. 
The  license terms are identical to the UWR++ fonts included with GNU GS 
and teTeX. Werner?

> Another thought.  Instead of artifically slanting the S font, why not use
> the true Greek Times italic font which comes with most Linux systems?
> (On my RH system, it is at /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/Type1/grktimi.pfb).
> This would of course avoid any problems with ghostscript. If it is thought
> to be a good idea, I am happy to provide the pfb and a grops metric for
> the font (the font is GPL'ed).

That's probably a good idea. Or creating a slanted version of the URW++ 
GPLed Standard Sym L font to be included with groff.