Re: [Groff] Polish characters.

[Ted Harding]

On 12-Nov-09 23:44:11, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>> I cannot get all polish special characters in postscript output.
>> The command I invoke is "groff -k -mom -Tps test.mom >test.ps".
>> I can see in the resulting ps file only the characters ć, ó,
>> ł - missing are ą, ż, ś, ź, ę, ń.
> 
> I suspect that you don't have PostScript fonts which support those
> glyphs.  For example, there is no `eogonek' in the TR font.
> 
>     Werner

It can be done -- there is indeed an ogonek in the standard PostScript
fonts. According to the classical PostScript Reference Manual, it is
at position 236 [oc\tal] in the ISOLatin1 ecncoding.

However, in groff's .../devps/TR file, it is listed at position
0230 (so there seems to have some change here), and it has groff
name \[ho].

There is also an l-slash listed at position 0234, groff name \[l/],
which again in the PostScript Reference Manual is given at position
370 [octal].

Apart from the l-slash, all the others can be built as composite
glyphs using accent-definitions.

As an example, in the ms-macros you can find (under .\" Accents)
the following:

.de acc*over-def
.ds \\$1 \Z'\v'(u;\w'x'*0+\En[rst]-\En[.cht])'\
\h'(u;-\En[skw]+(-\En[.w]-\w'\\$2'/2)+\En[.csk])'\\$2'
..
.de acc*under-def
.ds \\$1 \Z'\v'\En[.cdp]u'\h'(u;-\En[.w]-\w'\\$2'/2)'\\$2'
..

and then you can define 

.acc*over-def ' \'
.acc*over-def dot \[a.]
.char \[ogon] \h'0.5m'\[ho]
.acc*under-def og \[ogon]
.char \[A,] A\*[og]
.char \[N'] N\*'
.char \[Z.] Z\*[dot]

Now look at the results of the following:

\[A,]\0\0\[N']\0\0\[Z.]


These are only examples. I will post the full details later
(probably not today, since I am short of time right now).
But the above may serve as templates for you to work it out
for yourself!

Hoping this helps,
Ted.

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