Re: eqn formatting issues with grops and gropdf

[Robert Goulding]

That seems to work! The only downside (if it is one), is that Greek in
mathematical expressions is now also unslanted (see attached). That's no
big deal for me, as I almost never have Greek text and mathematics in the
same document (and I prefer upright Greek in math anyway) -- but could
someone who does write mathematical papers in Greek construe that to be a
bug, or at least undocumented behavior?

Robert.



On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 4:42 PM Deri <deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 26 July 2022 20:34:39 BST Robert Goulding wrote:
> > Thanks - It would take some work, I think, to make the character names
> > emitted by preconv match up with those in rfc1345 (but that maybe worth
> > doing as a comprehensive solution). In the past, I've simply redefined
> the
> > Greek letters one by one in just the way you suggested.
> >
> > I see that the Slant is hardwired into gropdf.pl itself. Would there be
> any
> > demand to add a switch, so that the device driver did *not *add slant to
> > Greek glyphs?
> >
> > Robert
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> The problem is in pdf.tmac, rather than gropdf.pl. I have attached a new
> version, please can you test. The change should mean that if the current
> font
> contains the greek characters, they are left alone but if groff has to
> source
> from a special font, i.e. S, it will apply the slant.
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
>


-- 
Robert Goulding
Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values;
Director, Program in History and Philosophy of Science;
Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies,
Fellow, Medieval Institute,
University of Notre Dame.

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