[Groff] Re: What's missing for Unicode support of groff?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I have tested unicode support in groff and stepped over a bug
> (IMHO).

This should be fixed now in the CVS.  Thanks for the report!  Please
test.

> 3. Some other bugs:
> 
> afmtodit needs a patch, since we do not encode variant glyphs with
> ps names smth.smth, but they may be present in kerning tables.

I can find a patch in your unicodetest bundle.  Do you mean this one?

> BTW, why not to encode them as, say, uXXXX.cap

I will have to think about this.

> grops(1) tells
>    A downloadable font should not include its own name in a
>    %%DocumentSuppliedResources comment.
> But the FreeEuro font does not follow this convention.

Can you provide a patch?

> PS. Have you started to work on real Unicode input?

No, sorry.  Still a lot of other things to do (and, admittedly, not
*that* much interest currently to start with this work).  As usual,
volunteers welcome.


    Werner