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From: gillies
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1989 08:29

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I'm using "ptroff" on NeXT to generate postscript output from troff.
Unfortunately, there is a problem with the symbol font.  All the greek
(upper & lower case) characters and numerals comes out in a normal
face.  However, the standard appearance in troff is italic for these
characters.  I have two questions:

(1) Does adobe plan to fix this bug in their driver?  Is there some
way I can fix the driver by changing the data files?  I doubt we have
a source license with a vanilla NeXT box.

(2) Probably the simplest fix is to change the psdit.pro files to CONS
up a new font with italic greek and numerals, and then replace symbol
temporarily on the server.  Can someone suggest a few Postscript
incantations to accomplish this, so I could add it to our psdit.pro
file?  Is this even possible?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu   UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies

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