Re: [Groff] Musings on the adding of fonts

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Contrary to my claim, out of the box it does *not* accept absolute
> file paths (however, relative file paths like
> "../../Type1/Helvetica.pfa" work).  This is because open_file in
> fontfile.cc *always* prepends the font path, even if we give it an
> absolute filename.  If we do this only if the filename does not
> begin with a "/", it works.  Question to the developers: is this the
> appropriate place to change?

I will implement recursive file searching sooner or later (similar to
web2c), so I won't change this right now.


    Werner