On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 12:40:07PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Branden! > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 11:19:54PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > > At 2024-03-22T18:35:02+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > > I see that Debian provides the Tinos font in some package: > > > > > > $ apt-file find -x Tinos.*pf > > > texlive-fonts-extra: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/google/tinos/Tinos-Bold.pfb > > > texlive-fonts-extra: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/google/tinos/Tinos-BoldItalic.pfb > > > texlive-fonts-extra: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/google/tinos/Tinos-Italic.pfb > > > texlive-fonts-extra: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/google/tinos/Tinos.pfb > > > > > > The above is .pfb, not .pfa, which I don't understand and may not be > > > usable for our purposes, > > > > PFA and PFB are closely related font file formats. Reputedly, they > > stand for "PostScript" (or "Printer") "Font" "ASCII" or "Binary", > > respectively. PFB was much more widely used on MS-DOS, due either to > > the meager disk space there, the 640kB RAM limit, or because it was > > thought that the fonts would be "pirated" (or even understood) less > > because the nature of their contents was less obvious. Who knows? > > > > Regardless, groff provides a tool for converting uncouth PFB to > > civilized PFA. > > > > $ apropos pfbtops > > pfbtops (1) - translate Printer Font Binary files to PostScript ASCII > > > > The grops(1) and gropdf(1) man pages in groff 1.23.0 discuss using this > > tool to prepare fonts so that groff can read them. > > Hmmm, so I could add a Makefile target to produce this .pfa font from > the packaged .pfb one, and then get gropdf(1) to use this one. --Using > a Makefile pays for itself.-- The process is fast, it seems. > > $ time pfbtops \ > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/google/tinos/Tinos.pfb \ > | wc -l > 19570 > > real 0m0.012s > user 0m0.015s > sys 0m0.001s > > I'll try it. This should remove a gigantic file from the project > repository. Thanks! =) > > > (Why not "pfbtopfa"? Ghostscript was already using that name. Why does > > groff provide a tool that does the same thing? Good question. I don't > > know. It is not a young program--it is old.[1] Maybe at one time groff > > was portable to MS-DOS but Ghostscript was not.) Oh, and there's also pfb2pfa(1), it seems. alx@debian:~$ apt-file find bin/pfbtops groff: /usr/bin/pfbtops alx@debian:~$ apt-file find bin/pfbtopfa ghostscript: /usr/bin/pfbtopfa alx@debian:~$ apt-file find bin/pfb2pfa texlive-binaries: /usr/bin/pfb2pfa > > Which one do you recommend? pfbtopfa(1) seems to have problems: > > $ pfbtopfa /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/google/tinos/Tinos.pfb > Error: /invalidfileaccess in --file-- > Operand stack: in1 (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/google/tinos/Tinos.pfb) (r) > Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1949 1 3 %oparray_pop 1948 1 3 %oparray_pop 1933 1 3 %oparray_pop 1803 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > Dictionary stack: --dict:746/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:88/200(L)-- > Current allocation mode is local > Last OS error: Permission deniedCurrent file position is 980 > GPL Ghostscript 10.03.0: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 > > > > Can we similarly get the Unifont for zh_CN PDFs? > > > > As I understand it, GNU Unifont is a low-resolution bitmap font intended > > for terminal emulators.[2] I expect it would look offensively bad when > > typeset. > > That's the font Deri used in his patch: > <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/2607548.uBY7QHFjlC@pip/> > > I guess that's better than nothing. > > Have a lovely day! > Alex > > > > > Regards, > > Branden > > > > [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/NEWS?h=1.23.0#n3211 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2tgZCabTzs > > [2] https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html > > > > -- > <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> > Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment. -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment.
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