Re: [Groff] Re: Resource forks in OSX__Wrapping up

[Alejandro López-Valencia]

Alejandro López-Valencia wrote:
> Alejandro López-Valencia wrote:
>>
>> Let's hope that making a fool of myself has some didactic purpose on
>> others, it certainly has on yours truly... :)
>>
>
> I am certainly a fool. After all this squirmishing splurge, I really
> should write up a little guide to installing fonts in groff.
>
> There is one thing I don't have clear just yet. Shouldn't \N'xxx'
> accept octal and hex numbers too? My reasoning goes like this, if you
> have a font encoding, you can find the decimal code for a font, but
> if you don't (used an empty encoding file for metrics generation),
> the only guide you have in the metrics file is the code column and
> those numbers are octal, not decimal. There should be a better way,
> if you have never seen a printout of the font glyphs related to the
> actual decimal codepoints you are left in a catch-22 unless you are
> an ace doing
> mental numerical base conversions (I am not).

Rats! I am blind! It certainly does. Then why didn't work the first five
times I tried? I have big bone to chew on...