Hi Deri, On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 08:58:03PM +0100, Deri wrote: > This is one of Branden's changes to groff. Previously a missing spacewidth parameter was > ignored and groff would calculate a value. As far as I know noone has ever complained > about the typography groff produced when using a font with no spacewidth parameter, it > is now an error, but it does not stop it computing a value and continuing. For pdf and ps, > using the default DESC files for the devices, the computed value is 333. > > However, UnifontM is a bit mapped mono font where all western glyphs have a width of > 500, so it would make sense edit that value into the UnifontM file by hand. For other > language glyphs the fixed width is 1000 but they don't normally need a space character > between glyphs, but you can adjust with .ss if necessary. > > I would advise to use:- > > .special TINOR UnifontM S Yep, I used that order, following the patch you sent me a few weeks ago. BTW, why do you call it TINOR and not TinosR? Also, why UnifontM and not UnifontR? What's that M mean? > Since this is the order you would like the fonts searched, typographically TINOR is much > better than UnifontM because the glyphs are drawn not bit mapped, so if a glyph exists in > both prefer to use TINOR. Yep. > If you want to produce man pages in CJK languages, it would be much better to install a > proper CJK font rather than rely on UnifontM, I suggested to use it to fill the gaps in the > iso-8859 pages. Now you want complete pages in other languages for shadow, you > should consider installing an appropriate font. I have attached two pdfs, one using > UnifontM and the other a proper CJK font. If you use your pdf viewers zoom control you > will soon see the difference in quality. Yeah, I was looking for a font that's in a common Debian package. I found some, but they were in very obscure packages that I prefer not to depend on. I'll keep searching. Have a lovely night! Alex > Cheers > > Deri -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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