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Article #3077Re: Fixed-width fonts and TROFF
From: Vidiot
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 05:45
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 05:45
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In article <1993Jan5.184840.1126@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> alex@tpocc.gsfc.nasa.gov (Alex Measday) writes:
<How do I embed fixed-width font text in a TROFF document? I use
<"ptroff -man" for manual pages and "ptroff -ms" for documents on
<a Sun workstation and I wish to display examples of C code, for
<instance, within the text.
You can't. Not with "ptroff", since it uses old troff, which can't load more
than four fonts (normal, italic, bold, symbol). The normal, italic and bold
can be set to a particular family.
In order to get more than four fonts, either get Chris Lewis' psroff suite
of programs, which cheats old troff into using more than four fonts. Or,
better yet, get the James Clark groff suite of programs. Groff is DWB 3.0
compliant. It allows for more fonts than I could ever dream of loading.
Groff works great on a SPARCstation. I should know, I use it on one.
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