Re: [Groff] UTF-8/Unicode Implementation, Paragraph-at-once Formatting and Right to Left Text

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Hello Ali!

Ali Gholami Rudi <address@hidden> wrote:
 |Hello,
 |
 |Carsten Kunze <address@hidden> wrote:
 |>> Just wanted to bring this to the attention of the list.
 |>> 
 |>> Neatroff - a C implementation of Troff.
 |> Not really new news: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gr\
 |> off/2013-07/msg00001.html
 |
 |I recently modified neatroff to support many of the advanced font
 |features present in OpenType fonts.  Neatmkfn (the program which
 |generates neatroff font descriptors, like Groff's afmtodit) can now
 |generate lines that define substitution and positioning rules, and
 |cursive attachments for OpenType fonts (lines starting with gsub,
 |gpos, and gcur respectively).  Note that unlike Heirloom troff, which
 |implements only pairwise kerning and single-character substitutions
 |insensitive of the context, neatroff implements many of the OpenType
 |substitution and positioning features.

I've looked at your page back then and forgot to say that *you* do
it the right way, so let me say it today.
And even your own toolchain, that is *so* right!
It will be interesting to see those circles grow over time, and
it's all yours, thoughts and work!
Happy hacking Ali,

--steffen