Re: [Groff] opentype and postscript fonts

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The groff font file is truncated:

Truncated?  What exactly do you mean?

> the name of the special letters (small caps, old style number...) is
> not mentionned, (replaced by ---) but they are present, and
> described in the entity name field.

Ah, I forgot this: `afmtodit' handles all glyph names containing a `.'
as unnamed glyphs.  This is intentional behaviour and normally what
you want.

Hmm.  Perhaps we shall add an option to `afmtodit' to retain glyph
variants.  Opinions?

> One can repair the groff font file using that sed expression (if
> first field is "---", it is replaced it by the fourth one): [...]
>
> Then we can use \[glyph_name]

Yes, this is one possibility.  Another one is to use `\N'
(cf. `europs.tmac') to map unnamed glyphs with `.char'.  However,
named glyphs are much more convenient to use...


    Werner