Re: [Groff] Re: Resource forks in OSX

[Werner LEMBERG]

> [The DESC file] will be overwritten when installing a latter CVS
> snapshot; why can't we have a shadow site-fonts directory where we
> can place our own font and download files, perhaps even custom DESC
> files?  Perhaps easier than the idea of emulating kpathsea.

Just set GROFF_FONT_PATH!

A single site-fonts directory is simply not enough IMHO.  While the
number of default fonts for groff is usually quite small, they should
be organized somehow.  Putting TeX's CM and EC fonts together with
PostScript fonts into the same directory is simply bad.  Thus
emulating kpathsea is for the benefit of organization, not to provide
a user's font directory (which is already handled nicely by both
troff's -F option and the GROFF_FONT_PATH environment variable).

Exactly the same arguments hold for a single site-macros directory,
so a kpathsea-like library will really be a win.


    Werner