Re: tpscript font files for palatino?

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From: Ed Gould
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 18:58

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>1) Does anybody out there have troff font description files for
>   palatino that they would like to share. Or, failing that...

>2) What is a good source of documentation that gives me the palatino
>   font specifics (primarily char widths) since with that info I'd
>   be willing to try and develop my own description files.

Tpscript comes with a PostScript program that will read the font
information from the printer, and produce a file suitable to
feed to mkdev.  The printer (really the font manufacturer) is the
only reliable wource for information about a given representation
of any font.

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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
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Subject: Re: tpscript font files for palatino?
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Date: 23 Nov 88 18:58:16 GMT
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