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Article #5247Re: Troff font names for PostScript fonts
From: Clemens Schrimpe
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 1988 14:25
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> Reply-To: csch@tmpmbx.UUCP (Clemens Schrimpe) Organization: netmbx GbR, Berlin Lines: 65