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.

To install CM font

wget www.ams.org/arc/tex/amsfonts.zip
unzip -d amsfonts amsfonts.zip
groff-install-font -d -c -F CM -f +SS amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/eusm10.pfb   # Euler symbols
groff-install-font -d -c -F CM -f +SSE amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/euex10.pfb  # Euler symbols extra
groff-install-font -d -c -F CM -f +SE amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/symbols/msam10.pfb # Euler extra
groff-install-font -d -c -F CM -f +SB amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/symbols/msbm10.pfb # Blackboard
groff-install-font -d -c -F CM -f +SF amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler/eufm10.pfb   # Blackletter (Fraktur)
groff-install-font -d -c -F CM -f +MA amsfonts/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmex10.pfb      # Math extension

apt source cm-super
cd cm-super-*/pfb
groff-install-font -d -c -F CM -f +R sfrm1000.pfb 
groff-install-font -d -c -F CM -f +I sfti1000.pfb 
groff-install-font -d -c -F CM -f +B sfrb1000.pfb 

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/