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bug #64600: groff_char(7) page renders badly with -Tdvi

Submitter:  G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Submitted:  Sat 26 Aug 2023 03:07:21 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core Severity:  2 - Minor
Item Group:  Rendering/Cosmetics Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Planned Release:  None
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Sat 26 Aug 2023 03:07:21 AM UTC, original submission:  

We have an occasional caveat in our documentation about bracket components in the TeX fonts not being the sizes that the formatter expects.

This has consequences when we render those glyphs using the TeX fonts.

Figure out of there is a workaround for this.  Should \x get involved?

Possible complications:

  • The special characters that produce these glyphs appear in a tbl table.


  • The table appears in a man page, where portability considerations militate against extreme cleverness.


This problem also affects \[integral], \[sum], \[product], and \[coproduct].

Is this simply a problem with the font description files having the wrong metrics?  It may have been a long time since they were generated.  (I thought anything using Knuth's official names was frozen.)

See attachments.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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file #55082:  groff_char_7.dvi.3.png added by gbranden (32KiB - image/png)
file #55083:  groff_char_7.dvi.2.png added by gbranden (38KiB - image/png)
file #55084:  groff_char_7.dvi.4.png added by gbranden (31KiB - image/png)
file #55081:  groff_char_7.dvi.1.png added by gbranden (94KiB - image/png)

 

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    2023-08-26 gbranden Attached File- Added groff_char_7.dvi.1.png, #55081
        Attached File- Added groff_char_7.dvi.3.png, #55082
        Attached File- Added groff_char_7.dvi.2.png, #55083
        Attached File- Added groff_char_7.dvi.4.png, #55084

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