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| From | Dave <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org> |
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| Subject | [bug #58036] Feature request: consistent "download" format |
| Date | Tue, 24 Mar 2020 05:59:46 -0400 (EDT) |
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Summary: Feature request: consistent "download" format
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: barx
Submitted on: Tue 24 Mar 2020 04:59:45 AM CDT
Category: Device - others
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: New feature
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
In a post to the groff email list
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2020-02/msg00058.html>, Tadziu notes
some quirks of the "download" files for different devices (typically installed
in /usr/share/groff/current/font/dev*/download):
grops (devps) is okay with
Symbol path/to/Symbol.pfa
but gropdf (devpdf) requires tabs as field separators
(see the gropdf manual page):
<tab>Symbol<tab>path/to/Symbol.pfa
where <tab> is an actual tab character.
grops wants .pfa files (which you can create from .pfb files
using pfbtops) and requires _relative_ paths, but for gropdf
[an absolute path] also appears to work
These differences seem capricious and unnecessary, serving only to trip up
unwary users. Ideally all "download" files would use a consistent format; for
maximum flexibility, it would allow both kinds of white space, and both kinds
of pathnames.
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