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Article #8033backspacing letters
From: Billy Bad Ass
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 22:16
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 22:16
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fellow net-junkies,
i'm trying to modify a font so that the control-H backspaces along with
printing nothing. this will allow me to print UNIX man pages and the
like without having to search the file for control-H's. here is how
i'm trying using the example on pp 99-100 in the "red book". i can get
'normal' letters to backspace, like the '/one' in the following
example; how do i specify control-H in the place of the '/one'? if
there is an easier way to get control-H to backspace, please let me
know at the following address
mucho appreciado
steve beaty@handel.colostate.edu
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%!
/Courier findfont
dup length 1 add dict /newdict exch def
{
1 index /FID ne
{
newdict 3 1 roll put
}
{
pop pop
}
ifelse
}
forall
1 dict begin
/one -100 def % replace /one with ?
newdict /Metrics currentdict put
end
/My-Courier newdict definefont pop
/My-Courier findfont 12 scalefont setfont
100 100 moveto
(ABC123DEF) show % test overstrike
showpage
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