dotfiles/groff

sboxes

Keep in mind, the macro utils.tmac sources sboxes.tmac, but that macro is exclusive to groff v1.23.0, which is not present on Debian 12. Compiling it from source is really easy though, thanks to GNU's coding standards.

To install CM font

Remember to add -s option to install in /usr/share/groff/ instead of /usr/local/share/groff/

wget www.ams.org/arc/tex/amsfonts.zip
unzip -d amsfonts amsfonts.zip
groff-install-font -F CM -f +R amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb
groff-install-font -F CM -f +I amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb
groff-install-font -F CM -f +B amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx10.pfb
groff-install-font -F CM -f +SS amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/eusm10.pfb   \" Euler symbols
groff-install-font -F CM -f +SE amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/symbols/msam10.pfb \" Euler extra
groff-install-font -F CM -f +SB amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/symbols/msbm10.pfb \" Blackboard
groff-install-font -F CM -f +SF amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/eufm10.pfb   \" Blackletter (Fraktur)

Custom fonts & glyphs

In order to install a font with custom glyphs like U+2112 'Laplace transform', search in your system for fonts with that glyph, and create a groff font with afmtodit.

grep -r '2112' /usr/share/fonts/* 2>/dev/null # Check for .afm font files with the glyph
afmtodit -e text.enc -i0 -m PATH-TO-FONT.afm /usr/share/groff/current/font/devpdf/map/textmap NAME
mkdir -p /usr/share/groff/site-font/devpdf/ # Create this directory if not already present
mv NAME /usr/share/groff/site-font/devpdf/