Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?

[Larry Kollar]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> Independently of this I think I think it would be a nice idea to
> extend afmtodit so that it supports `CC' (and `PCC'). ...
>
> Do you want to work on this?  On the other hand, it's probably not
> worth the trouble since AFM files with `CC' directives are rare (and
> AFM is dying out anyway).

How much work would it be to hook into whatever system-wide printer  
drivers there may be? This is something I've been pondering for a  
while, and I don't even have a clue how gtroff figures out glyph  
widths (is there some communication between gtroff & the  
postprocessor?). It would be nice to have access to all the TrueType  
and PostScript fonts installed on the system without having to build  
metric files and so forth.

If I were to poke at this, where would I start?

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