Re: [Groff] Feature suggestions for afmtodit

[James J. Ramsey]

--- Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Suggestion #2:
> > 
> > A new option, --use-default-textmap. If this
> option is
> > used, then only two filenames (instead of the
> usual
> > three) would be passed to afmtodit, the name of
> the
> > .afm file and the name of the font description
> file
> > that afmtodit will generate, and afmtodit would
> use
> > /usr/share/groff/1.18/font/devps/generate/textmap
> as
> > the textmap.
> 
> Hmm, I rather suggest to make afmtodit search in the
> default font
> directory in case the textmap file isn't in the
> current directory.
> The same should be true for the encoding file.
> 
> Saying 
> 
>   afmtodit ... textmap ...
> 
> (and textmap is automatically found in
> /usr/share/groff/1.18/font/devps/generate/) is less
> typing work than
> 
>   afmtodit --use-default-textmap ...

Good point, not to mention that it would probably
involve far fewer gymnastics with the argument list.

> 
> Can you provide a patch?
> 

That I'm not so sure about. I'll try looking at the
afmtodit script and see what I can do. I'm not very
well-versed in Perl, though, just bits and pieces.


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