Re: [Groff] Groff & Eurosymbol

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 05:58 p.m. 22/12/2002 -0500, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
> At 09:43 p.m. 22/12/2002 +0100, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I searched the list archives for Euro support in groff and found a 
> > Makefile-Thingie from Werner mostly helpful but from last year. With 
> > 1.18, the changelog states that the Euro-Glyph has been included. When I 
> > try \(eu or \(Eu, I get this response:
> >
> > eurotest.me:1: warning: can't find special character `eu'
> > eurotest.me:2: warning: can't find special character `Eu'
> >
> > Do I miss something?
> >
> > No fancy font-fiddling, troffed with "groff -me eurotest.me"
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
>
>
> The fact is that Werner has included full Euro support in the Postscript 
> driver but you need fonts and font metrics that *actually* have the glyph 
> in it.
>
> There are three alternatives.
>
> 1. The easiest (as in full of laziness), is to grab the latest CVS 
> snapshot of groff 1.8.2, compile, install; fire up your copy of pfaedit 
> (http://pfaedt.sourceforge.net/) and generate a PFA outline of the 
> included FreeEuro font (there is only outline description files in CVS, no 
> postscript outlines). Now you have it all, the font, the macros, a new 
> toy, the works.


Hmm... I just checked by CVS snapshot and *there is* a ready-to-use 
postscript outline and AFM file. Hmmm... That happens when you dig in the 
generate directory without paying attention to the actual fonts metrics 
directory. Boy am I absent minded these days! Must be the Christmas spirit.