Re: [Groff] need help with composite glyphs

[Heinz-Jürgen Oertel]

Am Sonntag 28 Juli 2013, 13:53:33 schrieb James Cloos:
> >>>>> "HO" == Heinz-Jürgen Oertel <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> HO> If not absolutely necessary, I like to stay with my ISO 8859-1 (-15) 
> environment. 
> 
> In a utf-8 locale, nroff defaults to the utf8 device, which is why the
> nroff example as written did not work for you.
> 
> It seems that you need support for u0075_030A in the groff font file if
> you want to use the unicode combining sequence.
> 
> This:
> 
> :; grep u0075_030A /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/*/R
> /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devhtml/R:u0075_030A     24      0       0x016F
> /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devutf8/R:u0075_030A     24      0       0x016F

OK, than this will be the way for me as next step.
> 
> shows that only those two devices have it by default.
> 
> The aring example worked because the font/devps/TR file has explicit
> support for the type1 /aring glyph.  It also support the /ring glyph,
> so maybe something like:
> 
>     \o'u\C\'ao\''
> 
> is the way to go?  \o'' overstrikes up to nine glyphs; \C'ao' is the ring 
> glyph.

This works.

> 
> It works here for ps, dvi and pdf devices.  But only for troff; nroff
> only show the last glyph from the \o'' set.
> 
> (I used http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/troff.pdf to learn \o'' and \C''
> and looked at /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/font/devps/TR to find the roff
> name (ao) for the ring glyph.)
> 
> -JimC

Thanks Jim,

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mit freundlichen Grüßen
       Heinz-Jürgen Oertel

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