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Article #130Re: What features would you like in GNU troff?
From: Walt Brainerd
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 23:41
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 23:41
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In article <3236@gos.ukc.ac.uk>, iau@ukc.ac.uk (I.A.Utting) writes: > >As quoted from <159@unmvax.unm.edu> by brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd): > >| A feature we have not implemented, but think desirable is font families, > >| so that switching to _italic_ means italic of the current font family, > >| for example. > > > To another extent, this can most easily be done by having different > typesetter (-Txxx) variants for each "family". For instance, for > PostScript printers, I have -Talw as the default with Times Roman descriptions > stored as R, I, B and BI; -TalwH analogously with Helvetica bold described in > the R, I etc. files. And so on. > The point of my feature is that this works using two or more font families in the same document, so that switching to italic when setting a subhead in Helvetica means Helvetica italic and switching to italic when setting text in Times means Times italic. Walt Brainerd Unicomp, Inc. brainerd@unmvax.cs.unm.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!gatech!unmvax!brainerd From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: What features would you like in GNU troff? Summary: Need both fonts in the same document Message-ID: <166@unmvax.unm.edu> Date: 22 Jun 89 23:41:56 GMT References: <779@pcrat.UUCP> <355@wjh12.harvard.edu> <8388@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3236@gos.ukc.ac.uk> Distribution: comp Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque Lines: 18