Re: proposed "headline" items for groff 1.24.0

Peter Schaffter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID <aXwNrBnv9uhUV4st@trajan>
On Thu, Jan 29, 2026, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> If I understand this Base 14 vs.  Base 35 stuff correctly, it
> _wouldn't_ help, or not much.  Families N and P aren't in the Base
> 14 set, so they'd need to be embedded in PDF anyway, and if their
> font files weren't found, such embedding is not going to happen.
> 
> Maybe Deri can shed some light on why the foundry was made
> explicit.  A quick glance over "typesetting.pdf" suggests to
> me that you're _not_ using exotic glyphs.  What you do use--I
> assume--is satisfied by the 256 glyphs of Adobe's N and P
> families.

Yes.  Nothing more exotic than a couple of grave and acute accents.

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