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Re: Troff font names for PostScript fonts

#5247
From: Clemens Schrimpe
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 1988 14:25
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jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) writes:
<> Can anybody give me some suggestions about the two-letter fontnames for
<> [di]troff that I should assign to the 35 built-in fonts of the Apple
<> LaserWriter IINTX? Of course I can define some (sometimes even reasonable)
<> names, but I want to use standards as much as possible.
Great idea! 

We use the EROFF-package from ELAN Computer Group Inc.
It works PRETTY WELL from the first minute!

The have a manual-page (psfonts.5), where I found the following:
(edited for brevity)

\f(ZD$\fP--------------------------- snip ----------------------------------
		Standard Fonts

	R	Times-Roman	ABC abc 123
	I	Times-Italic
	B	Times-Bold
	BI	Times-BoldItalic
	H	Helvetica
	HI	Helvetica-Oblique
	HB	Helvetica-Bold
	HX	Helvetica-BoldOblique
	CW	Courier (Constant width)
	CI	Courier-Oblique
	CB	Courier-Bold
	CX	Courier-BoldOblique
	S	Symbol

		Additional Fonts

	PR	Palatino-Roman
	PI	Palatino-Italic
	PB	Palatino-Bold
	PX	Palatino-BoldItalic
	A	AvantGarde-Book
	AI	AvantGarde-BookOblique
	AB	AvantGarde-Demi
	AX	AvantGarde-DemiOblique
	Z	Bookman-Light
	ZI	Bookman-LightItalic
	ZB	Bookman-Demi
	ZX	Bookman-DemiItalic
	N	Helvetica-Narrow
	NI	Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique
	NB	Helvetica-Narrow-Bold
	NX	Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique
	ZC	ZapfChancery-MediumItalic
	ZD	ZapfDingbats
	X	NewCenturySchlbk-Roman
	XI	NewCenturySchlbk-Italic
	XB	NewCenturySchlbk-Bold
	XX	NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic
----------------------------- snip again -----------------------------

I think they are all reasonable :-)

	Clemens Schrimpe, netmbx Berlin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!tmpmbx!csch
From: csch@tmpmbx.UUCP (Clemens Schrimpe)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Troff font names for PostScript fonts
Keywords: DWB troff ditroff PostScript LWIINTX
Message-ID: <1221@tmpmbx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 88 14:25:11 GMT
References: <570@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
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Organization: netmbx GbR, Berlin
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