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[groff] 61/72: INSTALL.extra: Clarify. |
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Sun, 23 Oct 2022 22:25:45 -0400 (EDT) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 95d88768b21e9917516ca2ef615a4a7d92808c16
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Oct 23 15:45:38 2022 -0500
INSTALL.extra: Clarify.
- Always quote "configure" when referring to the script of that name.
- Correct and expand discussion of gropdf and its 'Foundry' and
'download' files.
---
INSTALL.extra | 21 +++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL.extra b/INSTALL.extra
index 4ab122af9..8524cfce9 100644
--- a/INSTALL.extra
+++ b/INSTALL.extra
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ capable of handling this standardized version of the
language. The C++
source files use a suffix of '.cpp'; your C++ compiler must be able to
handle this. A C/C++ preprocessor that conforms to ISO C90 is also
required. If you don't already have a C++ compiler, we suggest GCC 9.4
-or later. To override the configure script's choice of C++ compiler,
+or later. To override the 'configure' script's choice of C++ compiler,
you can set the CXX environment variable to the name of its executable.
A few components of groff are written in ISO C99. Features later made
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ 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
+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.
@@ -139,18 +139,19 @@ 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.
-The configure script populates a "Foundry" file that tells gropdf where
-they reside after searching in several common locations. If you have
-multiple versions of the URW fonts available on your system, or the
-configure script cannot locate them on its own, use its
-"--with-urw-fonts-dir" option to tell the 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.
+The build process populates "Foundry" and "download" files that tell
+gropdf where to find their groff font descriptions and the font files
+themselves, respectively. If you have multiple versions of the URW
+fonts available on your system, or the 'configure' script cannot locate
+them on its own, use its "--with-urw-fonts-dir" option to tell the
+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
=============
-If you want A4 or U.S. letter paper format and the configure script
+If you want A4 or U.S. letter paper format and the 'configure' script
produces an incorrect guess, say
PAGE=xxx ./configure
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