Re: Tibetan fonts

[Oliver Corff]

Hi Tom,

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས

have you tried the font TibMachUni-1.901b.ttf? It is available via
package manager e.g. in Fedora 39.

Can post a source file for your examples, please? I may try in tomorrow.

Best regards,

Oliver.


On 21/01/2024 00:09, Tom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did typeset few books in Heirloom Troff with quite good outcome.
> For next book I need to use Tibetan font and unfortunately I can't
> make work in Heirloom Troff and Groff, only Neatroff does work.
>
> Right now I'm eager to completely switch to Groff. I can make any font
> work in Groff but not Tibetan. To my basic knowledge, I guess it is
> all about blwm and blws not accessible. There are only few Tibetan
> fonts with complex glyph composition which works in Neatroff. In groff
> I have managed only BabelStoneTibetan to display but several glyphs
> doesn't compose.
>
> For viewing I have attached Groff and Neatroff pdfs.
>
> YagpoTibetanUni: 100% composing in Neatroff but 100% failed in Groff
> and Heirloom troff.
> BabelStoneTibetan: 100% failed in Groff and Neatroff.
>
> I have tried various tibetan fonts, as well NotoSerifTibetan present
> in linux repositories. All those fonts don't work and groff yields:
> troff:<standard input>:20: warning: special character 'u0F04' not defined
> troff:<standard input>:20: warning: special character 'u0F05' not defined
> troff:<standard input>:20: warning: special character 'u0F0D' not defined
> ...
>
> If I understand enough, the warnings are about missing glyph mappings.
>
> Would you mind to have a look and check if Tibetan fonts are possible
> to make work in Groff ? I appreciate for any hints, and direction I
> can follow to make it happen.
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom
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