Re: italic corrections on synthesized slanted lowercase Greek letters on the pdf device (was: Using -Tpdf rather than -Tps and then ps2pdf)

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Deri,

At 2023-06-30T16:09:55+0100, Deri wrote:
> On Friday, 30 June 2023 15:43:49 BST Dave Kemper wrote:
> > Are any of the solutions put forth in this thread suitable for
> > commit to groff git (obviously not on master till it's unfrozen)?
> > They don't appear to have been pushed to any of the branches.  And I
> > don't see a savannah ticket for the issue.
> 
> I have the "best" solution on my branch which will be pushed as a
> public branch at some point. Best, in that it does not do any
> synthesis at all. It is a real type 1 font, so includes the italic
> corrections within the SS font which groff can use while typesetting,
> and means gropdf will produce the closest output to grops.

I'd like to reiterate my invitation to push this branch at any time.  A
branch cannot mess up the mainline ("master") or frustrate the release
in any way.

The exciting stuff you have queued will, I think, will help attract
renewed attention to groff.

Regards,
Branden

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