Re: [Groff] Re: Resource forks in OSX

[Alejandro López-Valencia]

Rob Scovell wrote:
> Non comprendo ... from the manual it looks like
> .ft IPA
> and
> \f[IPA]
> are equivalent.

Just covering that .ft may be taking only 1 or 2 char wide values...
Dunno, I've forgotten.

> I have tried changing this and it doesn't work.


> Here is the .afm file, in case that's up the creek, but I don't think
> so:

'tis fine.

Did you use

afmtodit -ns  -d ./DESC -i 0 TIPA____.AFM  generate/nullmap TIPA ?

One thing you can do is to create an encoding file...

delete all the cruft making sure you have only lines that look like
this:

C 32 ; WX 250 ; N space ; B 0 0 0 0 ;

name the file, say, tiphonenc.

gawk -F";" '{ print $3 $1 }' tiphonenc > tiphonenc1

then

gawk  -F" " '{ print $2 " "  $4 }' tiphonenc1 > tiphonenc2

(Of course this can be done in one pass, but I haven't used awk in a
long time).

And a map file:

gawk  -F" " '{ print $1 " "  $1 }' tiphonenc2 > tiphonmap

Now run:

afmtodit -ns  -d ./DESC -e tiphonenc2 -i 0 TIPA____.AFM
tiphonmap TIPA

After this, you have entries that look like:

equalsuperscript        444,510,0,0,-10 3       0075    --
equalsuperscript

And you can call this glyph as: \f[TIPA]\[turnedcomma]\fP

Works here....