Re: Linux man-pages PDF book

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:54:21AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Deri,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:17:18AM +0100, Deri wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:57:41 BST Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > >  I've moved it to .../devpdf and
> > > added the download file, and it still doesn't work.
> >  Hi Alex,
> > 
> > What was not clear when I wrote:-
> > 
> > "Your _FONTSDIR must point to a directory which has a subdirectory called 
> > 'devpdf' which holds TINOR and UnifontM and a suitable 'download' file which 
> > gives the location of the actual .pf[ab] files (i.e. within texlive - no need 
> > to copy it). The difference, with/without, is in the number of glyphs not 
> > found messages."
> > 
> > But instead you changed _FONTSDIR to point to devpdf.
> 
> Sorry, I misread.  Fixed:
> <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib>
> 
> Now I get some new warnings.  :)

(I guess that I'll need to regenerate TINOR too.)

> 
> > The difference in the pages between having working and non-working fonts is 
> > seen in the attached example pages (compare with your book). These in fact are 
> > using UnifontM. TINOR provides the cyrillic glyphs and greek of the iso_8859 
> > pages if I remember.
> > 
> > You can still see some gaps (which should not happen using UnifontM) they 
> > appear to be caused by an issue in one of Branden's commits, see:-
> > 
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65601
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Have a lovely day!
> Alex
> 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Deri
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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