Re: Using -Tpdf rather than -Tps and then ps2pdf

[Deri]

On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 16:11:50 BST Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > I think the likeliest site to fix PDF output is the `pdf:SS`
> > macro in pdf.tmac.
> 
> You are right.
> 
> This works:
> 
>   .de pdf:SS
>   .char \\$1 \s'\\\\n[.ps]u*89u/100u'\S'15'\\$1\S'0'\s'0'
>   ..
>   .pdf:SS \[*a]
>   .pdf:SS \[*b]
>   (etc.)

Bravo Tadziu.

In forthcoming 1.23.0 it uses .fchar rather than .char. This is to avoid 
slanting lower case greek characters in a normal text font.

I have just generated a SS font as a type 1 font, using transformation from 
the standard Symbol font, but I prefer your solution.

Cheers 

Deri