Re: [Groff] font downloading

[P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 10:14 a.m. 14/05/2002 -0500, Steve Izma wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:44:42AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:16:32 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: "Robert D. Goulding" <address@hidden>
[snip]
> > In the site-font directory I have a `download' file mapping the fonts I
> > have installed locally; and clearly groff was stopping the moment it found
> > that.  (I had assumed that it would look for *all* download files and
> > merge them - would this be a desirable feature?)
> >
> > Robert.
>
> This is something I've needed to deal with when upgrading groff --
> making sure my local download file is merged with the default file. I
> vote for multiple download files if it's not too difficult to
> implement.

I vote for a site-fonts directory in addition to the multiple download 
files. Some place safe to keep the metrics *and* the outline files.