Re: [Groff] [Heirloom] Generating doc/ files

[Ted Harding]

On 27-Aug-2014 22:39:23 Dale Snell wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:04:27 -0400
> Doug McIlroy <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Groff is open source. A conscientious author will strive
>> to make source--the whole source including documentation--as
>> easily portable as possible. Documentation created in the back
>> room and distributed only in PDF is the antithesis of open.
> 
> I quite agree.  
> 
>> I hope "Linux Libertine" is a joke that I don't happen to
>> understand.
> 
> Linux Libertine is the name of a free/open typeface.  Whether the name
> was a deliberate joke or not I do not know.  Possibly someone forgot to
> look up "libertine" in the dictionary?
> 
> --Dale

I've been trying to restrain myself since first seeing "Linux Libertine"
in this thread, but now ...

I think a Linux Libertine could be implemented as a Helvetica Bold,
or (in its "outline" version) as Helvetica Bold Blonde.

With apologies to our Helvetian members.

Ted.


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