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Article #2062Re: what fonts allowed in troff .ft command?
From: Vidiot
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 02:06
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 02:06
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In article <1853@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) writes:
<In article <1990Oct29.200132.26513@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) writes:
<
< * Our n|troff manual says that the permissible letters
< * for a .ft <font> command are R, I, B, or S; yet I have
< * received a file that uses .ft C quite happily; I
< * believe it means Courier. How can I find out what
< * letters are allowed on my system for this command?
<
<Whose n|troff manual are you reading?
<
<You can use any one-letter or two-letter combinations you
<like for the names of fonts.
<
<Generally, you have the problem of mapping real world font names
<to one or two letter combinations. Some typical combinations
<I've seen are:
<
< H Helvetica
< HI Helvetica Italic
< HB Helvetica Bold
< PA Palatino
< PI Palatino Italic
< PB Palatino Bold
< PX Palatino Bold Italic
< ZC Zapf Chancery
<and so on.
All of this is well and good, only if your system has the fonts in a spot
where they can be gotten at. This is site dependent. See your system
administrator for documentation as to what your system has.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: what fonts allowed in troff .ft command? Message-ID: <1071@vidiot.UUCP> Date: 10 Nov 90 02:06:05 GMT References: <1990Oct29.200132.26513@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1853@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Organization: Vidiot's Hangout Lines: 35