Re: [Groff] Times-Roman v. Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Werner,

> Hmm.  It seems that Arch Linux doesn't set up the URW fonts.  Bad.

They deliberately try to alter upstream as little as possible, AIUI.
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/groff
shows the PKGBUILD file that defines how to build the upstream source.
Is there some groff configuration that is missing to have the U foundry
appear, or is it more the distribution has to apply its knowledge of
what fonts from where are available and tailor devpdf/download?

> Attached is what I get for input file `z.tr' containing
...
>   groff -P -y -P U -Tpdf z.tr > z.pdf

Ah, no mention of Times, and Nimbus embedded.  It's a big file though,
~120,000 bytes compared with ~4,000 if -Tps and ps2pdf is used to also
embed Nimbus.  I guess the latter picks just certain runes?

And that's with gropdf, the ditroff → PDF stage.  Presuambly, troff has
used Times' metrics before that?  (It could well be the metric
differences are minute and there just to avoid copyright hassle?)

Cheers, Ralph.