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Question for the groff experts out there: XeLaTeX has finally moved LaTeX into the realm of directly embedding virtually any true type font into the final docu
by Surio 14y ago
Question for the groff experts out there:
XeLaTeX has finally moved LaTeX into the realm of directly embedding virtually any true type font into the final document. Literally 5-6 lines of LaTeX commands and you are done! I was amazed when I first did it. It was so convenient, when compared to messing with pfbs, then afms, and then.... you get the idea, no?
Is there a similar groff mechanism to pull TTF/OTF fonts into the final PS/PDF document with similar minimal effort? If, could someone be kind enough to point a resource to me. Thanks.
P.S: I was searching, but could not home in on the right keywords to drive me to an answer.
- ralph 14y agoI think TrueType fonts with groff is fairly painless; the topic comes up on the groff@gnu.org list now and again but I don't pay much attention. The list is low volume and very friendly, with some real old Unix hands on there; feel free to ask, say I sent you if you like. https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff Gunnar's Heirloom troff has TrueType support. "troff can access PostScript Type 1, OpenType, and TrueType fonts directly, that is, it can read font metrics from AFM, OpenType, or TrueType files, and can instruct its dpost post-processor to include glyph data from PFB, PFA, OpenType, and TrueType files into the output it generates". http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html
- Surio 14y agoThanks. I will check both the list and heirloom. Hadn't heard of heirloom before. So, thanks again.