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bug #66344: support `-y` foundry-selection option as gropdf does

Submitter:  G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Submitted:  Thu 17 Oct 2024 12:02:37 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  Feature change Status:  Duplicate
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gbranden
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  None
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Thu 17 Oct 2024 04:29:07 PM UTC, comment #2: 


comment #1:

> It would make more sense to add this to groff. So that .ft TR resulted in 'x font 5 U-TR' if -yU was passed to groff. This would mean no changes to grops, adding the U- to internalname (by afmtodit), and gropdf dropping the -y flag.


Ah!  That makes this a duplicate of bug #58969.

I'll add a note there; your elaborations in comment #1 are important.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Thu 17 Oct 2024 01:19:51 PM UTC, comment #1: 

It would make more sense to add this to groff. So that .ft TR resulted in 'x font 5 U-TR' if -yU was passed to groff. This would mean no changes to grops, adding the U- to internalname (by afmtodit), and gropdf dropping the -y flag. This would mean the download files for grops and gropdf would be same, no foundry field, the difference would be gropdf would have a download entry for Times-Roman and U-Times-Roman whereas the grops download would only contain U-Times-Roman.

The problem with the current system (which I devised!) is that if your document uses .ft TR and you pass -P-yU you end up with a mongrel, groff using the meta-data from the TR font but gropdf embedding the font associated with U-TR, not ideal!

Best not to use '-', Fontnames tend to use it, something like '!' perhaps. (But lookup place name 'Westward Ho!" [1]  - "there's nowt as queer as folk").

[1] https://en.wikipe ... /wiki/Westward_Ho!

Deri James <deri>
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Thu 17 Oct 2024 12:02:37 PM UTC, original submission:  

gropdf(1):

     -y foundry
             Set the foundry to use for selecting fonts of the same
             name.


G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2024-10-17 gbranden CategoryDriver grops Core
        StatusNone Duplicate
        Assigned toNone gbranden
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Summary[grops] support `-y` foundry-selection option as gropdf does support `-y` foundry-selection option as gropdf does

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