Using Palatino font with groff mom macros

Question

I am trying to use the Palatino font with my groff mom document.

The documentation says

FAMILY takes one argument: the name of the family you want. Groff comes with a small set of basic families, each identified by a 1-, 2-or 3-letter mnemonic. The standard families are:
A = Avant Garde
BM = Bookman
H = Helvetica
HN = Helvetica Narrow
N = New Century Schoolbook
P = Palatino
T = Times Roman
ZCM = Zapf Chancery
The argument you pass to FAMILY is the identifier at left, above. For example, if you want Helvetica, enter
.FAMILY H

I assume then that I can use the Palatino font with .FAMILY P. However, when I do this I get these warnings, and the compiled PDF uses a fallback monospace font:

report.mom:28: warning: can't find font `PR'
report.mom:31: warning: can't find font `PB'
report.mom:31: warning: can't find font `PI'
report.mom:31: warning: can't find font `PBI'
[mom]: Either font style "B" at line 31 does not exist in family "P",
       or family "P" has not been installed.
Aborting 'report.mom' at FT, line 31.

I am compiling like this:

pdfmom -t report.mom > report.pdf

I have groff version 1.22.3 installed.

My interpretation of "Groff comes with a small set of basic families" is that all of the standard families are available in the default installation of groff.

Am I mistaken? Is there a manual step I need to take to install or configure Palatino for use by groff?

Edit

Looking more closely on my system:

$ ls /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devpdf
CB   CI  DESC      enc   Foundry  HBI  HR   S   TBI  TR    ZD
CBI  CR  download  EURO  HB       HI   map  TB  TI   util
$ ls /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devps
AB   BMB   CB   DESC          freeeuro.pfa  HI    HNR  NI   PI        SS            text.enc    ZCMI
ABI  BMBI  CBI  download      generate      HNB   HR   NR   PR        symbolsl.pfa  TI          ZD
AI   BMI   CI   EURO          HB            HNBI  NB   PB   prologue  TB            TR          ZDR
AR   BMR   CR   freeeuro.afm  HBI           HNI   NBI  PBI  S         TBI           zapfdr.pfa

So it appears I have Palantino available for the ps device (because of the P* files in font/devps) but not for the pdf device.

I tried to just copy the P* files from font/devps to font/devpdf and recompile, but then the text had weird spacing issues after. There are no spacing issues if I compile with -Tps.

How can I correctly configure my system to allow me to use the Palantino font with the pdf device?

Answer 1

What you can do is use the regular Troff .fam argument, then P. I've had pretty good success with that.

The other thing you can try is using Troff by itself and then the Postprocessor Gropdf to render like this.

troff -mom -Tpdf $INPUTFILE | gropdf $INPUTFILE > $OUTPUTFILE

(replace $INPUTFILE with your File name and $OUTPUTFILE with what you want the PDF called)