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In article <317@elan.UUCP> kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes:
>From article <44900008@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>, by kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:
>> 
>> My only beef with ditroff is the limitation of ten fonts per device.
>
>Ditroff has no font number limit, per se...

Also remember that ditroff's idea of a font is a little more far-reaching
than most everyone else's definition.  A "font" in ditroff spans all
possible point sizes.  Thus one can ask for .ft R and use it at any
available point size (10, 12, 18, 24, etc.) and it still only counts as
one font.  The different point sizes are all considered to be proportional
to one another.  In other words, 12 point widths are exactly twice 6
point's, and 24 point widths are exactly twice 12 point's.  So "ten fonts"
means (for example):  Roman, Italic, Bold, Helvettica, typewriter, script,
Lucida, TimesRoman, TimesBold, special.  Each font is available at all the
"standard" point sizes.

I'm not saying I like ditroff's approach...just that that's the way it
does it.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>