Fwd: I'm going to work on integrating install-font.sh into groff

[T. Kurt Bond]

Drats.  Forgot to cc the groff mailing list.

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From: T. Kurt Bond <tkurtbond@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: I'm going to work on integrating install-font.sh into groff
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>


My earlier post to the list about using install-font.sh did it a disservice
- as Peter pointed out, most people will find the simple use all they
need.  It really is as simple as

install-font.sh *fontfile*


It figures out the name of the font  and chooses some sensible defaults.
The only question you have to answer is basically whether this particular
font file is for the R, I, B, or BI variant of the font, and the other
questions have sensible defaults.  There is a post
<https://tkurtbond.github.io/posts/2021/07/17/install-fontsh-the-simple-approach/>
on my blog that shows running the script to install all four of the
variants of the Lora font, with all output and the prompts the script
asks.  It does produce a lot of output, but the colorizing helps to pick
out the important things.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 8:44 AM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> Wonderful. It would be great if we could get something whose basic
> form is something as simple as
>
>                   makegrofffont parentfontfile grofffontfile
>
> perhaps with an option argument to designate the type of parentfontfile
> if that can't be determined automatically.
>
> Doug
>


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T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond@gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io


-- 
T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond@gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io