Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Dave Newsgroups: gnu.groff.bug Subject: [bug #57506] Erroneous "slant" value in Times italic font(s) for ps device Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 04:39:21 -0400 (EDT) Lines: 40 Approved: bug-groff@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20191230-102319.sv93119.70813@savannah.gnu.org> <20200317-033921.sv93119.50820@savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1584434366 14417 209.51.188.17 (17 Mar 2020 08:39:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: Dave , bug-groff@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-groff@gnu.org X-PHP-Originating-Script: 1001:sendmail.php X-Savane-Server: savannah.gnu.org:443 [209.51.188.72] X-Savane-Project: groff X-Savane-Tracker: bugs X-Savane-Item-ID: 57506 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 X-Apparently-From: 136.49.12.197 (Savane authenticated user barx) In-Reply-To: <20191230-102319.sv93119.70813@savannah.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.72 X-BeenThere: bug-groff@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for the GNU version of nroff, troff et al" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <20200317-033921.sv93119.50820@savannah.gnu.org> X-Mailman-Original-References: <20191230-102319.sv93119.70813@savannah.gnu.org> Xref: csiph.com gnu.groff.bug:1769 Follow-up Comment #1, bug #57506 (project groff): This bug dates to at least groff 1.02: commit 351da0dc, the oldest available in git, shows that both of these files (then in directory ps/devps) had the same slant values then that they have today. $ git show 351da0dc:ps/devps/TI | grep ^slant slant 7 $ git show 351da0dc:ps/devps/TBI | grep ^slant slant 15 But these files, while they are groff source files (in that they live in the groff source-code repository), do not appear to be actual source files, in that they are built by font/devps/generate/Makefile (today, or ps/devps/FontMakefile back in commit 351da0dc). Thus this bug may be in the source files that TI and TBI are built from, or in the tools used to build them. The primary tool is the afmtodit Perl script, which is part of groff (src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.pl, or ps/devps/afmtodit back in 351da0dc). I am not sure of the origin of the primary source files, Times-Italic.afm and Times-BoldItalic.afm. They don't live in the groff source tree (if they did, presumably TI and TBI would not, instead being built by the groff build process) or anywhere on my system. The Makefile expects them to be in /usr/local/lib/afm. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/