Re: Font path issue

[Robert Goulding]

>
>
> All works fine here. I believe what hit Robert is that grops stops looking
> when it finds the first download file (which would be the one in site-font
> if
> it exists) which  means that if there are any entries in the system
> download
> they would not be found. This is why copying those entries to site-font
> download fixed his problem.
>
> Gropdf is different, it takes into account all download files found, so
> there
> is no need to duplicate entries into the site-font download file. You
> could
> organise your fonts into separate families, each with its own separate
> download file just for that family, and then list the directories
> separated by
> a ":" in GROFF_FONT_PATH.
>

Coming into this late: but the manpage for gropdf says different: "Only
 the  first
         download file encountered in the font search path is read.  If in
         doubt, copy the default download file (see section “Files” below)
         to the first directory in the font search path and add your fonts
         there."

If Deri says it looks for *all* the download files, then that must be
correct! But is the manpage out of date then?

Robert.

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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.