Missing Characters on FreeBSD Console (vt)

[concussious]

Hello! Spleen is missing characters on the FreeBSD console needed for the manual subsystem. They are listed on the mandoc_char manual.

Briefly, as the manual describes them there's:

• Left hand
• Right hand
• Check Mark
• Trade Mark
• Right low double-quote
• Right low single-quote

And so on.

Thank you for producing and sharing this font, and your consideration.

Edit: Gratefully remove resolved entries!

[fcambus]

Thanks for pointing this out, I will look into adding these characters and tag a new release.

[concussious]

(^••^)s

[concussious]

A particularly bad one we're struggling¹ with is the mathematical asterisk created by roff escape \(**, which you can see on mandoc_char(7).

I don't know too much, but is there any way I can help?

Footnotes

1. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268421 ↩

[fcambus]

Thanks for the follow‑ups. There is a pull request which is adding some of the missing glyphs, I will try to review it ASAP and then start work on adding the other missing glyphs.

[concussious]

We are also missing Mathematical Left Angle Bracket (U+27E8) and Mathematical Right Angle Bracket (U+27E9). These are needed in the manpages subsystem for the Aq/Ao/Ac (angle quotes) macros.

[fcambus]

I started reviewing the PR, but it wasn’t mergeable due to several style, size, and alignment issues.

Nonetheless, I went ahead and added some of the characters you mentioned.

So far, the master branch has support for these characters:

• Dagger
• Double dagger
• Em-dash
• En-dash
• Hyphen
• Mathematical Left Angle Bracket
• Mathematical Right Angle Bracket
• White square

[concussious]

Wow, this looks great, and it's a massive fix that affects every single manual page!

If you cut a release in the next few days, I can ship this in FreeBSD 14.4! Thank you for your consideration!

[fcambus]

Glad to hear that! There is still a couple of minor fixes I want to get in, but I plan to cut a new release tomorrow.

[concussious]

Thank you so much!

[fcambus]

Spleen 2.2.0 has been released.

[concussious]

Thank you so much. It's looking great, I pushed it to FreeBSD, and it is in time to ship in FreeBSD 14.4!

[fcambus]

Glad to hear this, thank you!

I will continue working on adding the characters currently missing in mandoc_char.7.