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Article #272Re: Two DWB DiTroff questions
From: Jeff Copeland
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1989 17:20
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1989 17:20
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In article <1867@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> bink@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ubben Greg) writes:
>Two DiTroff (System V.2 DWB) questions I'm stumped on...
>
>1. Please explain why .bp must be written as .br \&\c `bp in the end macro.
Roughly, the last page needs text on it, because after the input text has
ended, troff won't create a page. This used to be explained in
Kernighan's "A Troff Tutorial", or the appendices to the "Nroff/troff
User's Manual" in the old (pre-DWB 2.0) troff documentation.
>2. I created my own description files, and they work when I use ".ft K",
> but if I try to access my fonts by font position (".ft 1") I get a
> "Cannot open /usr/lib/font/devx27/1.out" error. Using .fp doesn't
Fonts by number aren't recognized if no special font exists.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!ico!ism780c!jeff From: jeff@ism780c.isc.com (Jeff Copeland) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Two DWB DiTroff questions Message-ID: <29319@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 7 Jul 89 17:20:56 GMT References: <1867@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Reply-To: jeff@ism780c.UUCP (Jeff Copeland) Distribution: na Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 15