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Using fonts in groff
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Overhead slides
I use groff to prepare overhead slides. It's not 100% straightforward: for one thing,
there's no paper format that matches overhead projectors, which still almost always have a 4:3
format. I fix this one by defining my own. Here's a patch which might need a little massaging.
# Slides require the following patch to describe the format:
#
# --- /usr/local/share/ghostscript/6.51/lib/gs_statd.ps Sat Oct 20 18:58:39 2001
# +++ /wantadilla/usr/local/share/ghostscript/6.01/lib/gs_statd.ps Sun Dec 31 16:45:44 2000
# @@ -40,6 +39,7 @@
# /.setpagesize { /statusdict .systemvar begin .setpagesize end } bind def
# userdict begin
# % Page sizes defined by Adobe documentation
# + /vga4x3 {480 360 //.setpagesize exec} bind def % output on standard VGA screen (4x3)
# /11x17 {792 1224 //.setpagesize exec} bind def % 11x17 portrait
# /a3 {842 1190 //.setpagesize exec} bind def
# /a4 {595 842 //.setpagesize exec} bind def
# @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
# { /letter /note /legal
# /a0 /a1 /a2 /a3 /a4 /a5 /a6 /a7 /a8 /a9 /a10
# /b0 /b1 /b2 /b3 /b4 /b5 /b6 /archE /archD /archC /archB /archA
# - /flsa /flse /halfletter /11x17 /ledger
# + /flsa /flse /halfletter /vga4x3 /11x17 /ledger
# } cvlit readonly def
#
# %%%%%% The following items were suggested by a user as useful.
With this patch, the “paper” has dimensions of 4" x 3".
=== grog@wantadilla (/dev/ttypb) /src/BLFS/Rocksoft/Documentation 149 -> remake howto-clean-up.ps
pic /home/Book/tools/tmac.G howto-clean-up.G | tbl | groff -rN2 -rL12i -rO60p -rW6.5i -Tps >howto-clean-up.ps 2>howto-clean-up.toc || cat howto-clean-up.toc
emacs -batch howto-clean-up.ps -l /home/grog/letters/setoffset.el
Saving file /src/BLFS/Rocksoft/Documentation/howto-clean-up.ps...
Wrote /src/BLFS/Rocksoft/Documentation/howto-clean-up.ps
11 pages
=== grog@wantadilla (/dev/ttypb) /src/BLFS/Rocksoft/Documentation 150 -> remake howto-clean-up.pdf
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=howto-clean-up.pdf -c save pop -f howto-clean-up.ps
Back to working on AUUGN today, in the process
debugging some macros and working out an automatic way to build the download file that
groff uses to decide which fonts to include in a PostScript document. In FreeBSD, the
file is called /usr/share/groff_font/devps/download, and it contains a lookup from font
name to the file which contains the description:
# List of downloadable fonts
# PostScript-name Filename
Symbol-Slanted symbolsl.pfa
ZapfDingbats-Reverse zapfdr.pfa
The second entry on each line is the name of a file in the same directory. They start with a
line like: %!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: Garamond-Bold 001.003, which gives the information
needed for download. The following single line script adds to it:
$ grep AdobeFont *.pfa | sed 's/:.*://'|awk '{print $2 "\t" $1}' >> download
Without this download file, documents will be encoded without fonts; that will only work
if the same fonts are available when the document is displayed. Very frequently you'll see PDF
documents with incorrect spacing round the ligatures ff, fi, ffi and
ffl. Setting up the download file should fix that.