Re: [Groff] character u21D5 is not available in groff

[Denis M. Wilson]

Thank you Ted for that, I hadn't twigged, and it will of some use.

The proper use of ellipsis in text is as punctuation, and depending on
the font may be subject to kerning. So it's use from a symbol font may
not have all the properties. On the other hand apparently .cflags works
for symbols from other fonts, eg to declare a sentence terminator.

I've just found that it's in text fonts under \[u2026]\[el]

Denis


On Thu, 29 May 2014 21:57:19 +0100 (BST)
(Ted Harding) <address@hidden> wrote:

> On the contrary, it is there! It is in the Symbol font (\fS)
> at position 0274[octal] = 188[decimal], but it has no name.
> So define
> 
> .char \[el] \f[S]\N'188'\fP
> 
> and then you have it!
> 
> Best wishes too all,
> Ted.
> (About to follow up with comments on the double up-down arrow).
> 
> On 29-May-2014 19:48:31 Denis M. Wilson wrote:
> > Another glyph that is in most text PostScript fonts, is widely used
> > in English, but is not in groff, is the ellipsis (three dots).
> > 
> > Denis
> > 
> > On Thu, 29 May 2014 20:13:49 +0200
> > "Bernd Warken" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >> > Von: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
> >> > 
> >> > > The following line is from groff_char.man:
> >> > > 
> >> > > \[vA]    \e[vA]  uni21D5 u21D5   vertical
> >> > > double arrow in both directions
> >> > > 
> >> > > I couldn't find this character \[vA].  Some idea?
> >> > 
> >> > Originally contained in the glyph sets of -Tlj4 and -Tdvi; added
> >> > to -Tps later on, using the standard AGL name `uni21D5'.
> >> 
> >> Fine.  I seem reasonable to include this and the other 4 characters
> >> into groff in general for all devices.  How can this be done?
> >> 
> >> Bernd Warken
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> 
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