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Article #4746Re: Getting Transcript 2.1 to use all LaserWriter Fonts
From: Henry McGilton
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 1991 19:01
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 1991 19:01
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In article <ip6G8#hl@cs.psu.edu> ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
* Let me clarify this. What I really meant to as was how do I
* convience ptroff, the shell script which runs troff, to use a
* built in font that adobe did not already build the troff font
* files for? By default the transcript installation only builds
* troff font data for AvantGarde, Bookman, Courier, Garamond,
* Helvetica, Helvetica Narrow, Lubalin, New Century School Book,
* Optima, Palatino, Souvenir, Times, and Zapf. What about the
* other ~22 fonts my LaserWriter II NTX knows about?
Start by looking at the TranScript Manual page pscatmap(8).
Remember that old troff can only mount four fonts at a time.
Use the -F command line option to ptroff to switch font groups.
........ Henry
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