Re: [groff] man -Tdvi replaces $ by £

[Pali Rohár]

On Tuesday 29 May 2018 07:44:00 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > grodvi invoked by man -Tdvi replaces all occurrences of dollar
> > character ($) by pound sterling character (£).
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> > .TH test 1
> > .BI "perl example: " "$str =~ m/^[a-z]$/;"
> 
> This example tries to use `$' within bold italic.  However, the TeX CM
> font `cmbi10' doesn't provide this character.  File `dvi.tmac' contains
> 
>   .fspecial TBI CWI
> 
> which means that it tries `CWI' as a font-specific fallback for glyphs
> missing in TBI.  However, `CWI' was generated with the same mapping
> table as `CW', which was wrong.
> 
> Now fixed in git.  Thanks for the report.

Ah, so this is again problem with missing $ in italic family of Knuth's
fonts and wrong mapping table... Thanks for fixing it.

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