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Article #4430help with fonts & troff
From: Marcio de Carvalho
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1988 23:52
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1988 23:52
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I am using four different fonts in the same document. Three
of them are the run-of-the-mill roman, italic and bold which
are loaded in positions 1 2 and 3. I want to refer to the
fourth font in a generic manner, in such way that I can
print the document in different typesetters without having
to do major editings in the document. I will alternate
between a PostScript laser and an APS typesetter. Since,
similar fonts have different designations in the two
printers, if I use the escape sequence "\fxx" to change
fonts, I have will to edit every occurrence of that string
when I change printers.
I tried to load the extra font in a preselected posi-
tion with the troff command
.fp 4 xx
Troff gives an error message:
"font xx is to big for position 4"
Apparently (according to the local troff guru) ".fp" behaves
differently from machine to machine.
How do I assign symbolic names to fonts in the begin-
ning of the document? Any suggestions?
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