Re: [Groff] Bold \(sq not filled

[Carsten Kunze]

Hi Ralph, 

> > in troff the Times Roman Bold \(sq is filled solid black. In groff
> > there is no difference between any Times Roman font.
> 
> Agreed.  This does seem to be a bug in groff that needs formerly lodging
> somewhere?

Yes, it's somehow a groff "bug". Could also be named a bug that this glyph has 
a so different appearence in bold face at traditional troff, but groff should 
be compatible with legacy troff (with its bugs also ;-)

> > Is there a way to get the standard (UNIX V7) behaviour of a solid
> > filled bold \(sq?
> 
> For what output devices?

At least for postscript output, if possible.

> > Or is there any other special character which draws a solid filled
> > square? (At the moment I use a scaled draw function.)
> 
> It seems -Tps draws \(sq whereas -Tutf8 uses U+25A1.  The neighbouring
> U+25A0 is filled so \[u25A0] might do you, depending on the output
> device.

I will check this, thank you very much!

(To have it some day for postscript \fB\(sq also would be very nice (for 
compatibility reasons).)

Thanx for your help!

Regards,
Carsten