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Article #5248Re: Troff font names for PostScript fonts
From: Rick Richardson
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 02:20
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 02:20
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>In article <1221@tmpmbx.UUCP>, csch@tmpmbx.UUCP (Clemens Schrimpe) writes: >> jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) writes: >> <> Can anybody give me some suggestions about the two-letter fontnames for > Instead of wasting a letter to indicate bold, italic, or both, I used upper/lower case to differentiate these variations in JetRoff. xx 'normal' Xx bold (capitalized looks kind of Bold) xX italic (looks a little slanted, don't you think) XX bold italic For backwards compatability, I kept R, B, I, H, HB, HI, CW, and S. But I think for the future it makes much more sense to use the two letters for the name, and the case for the style. It's too bad so much of the name space has already been wasted... -- Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc. rick%pcrat.uucp@uunet.uu.net (INTERNET) uunet!pcrat!rick (UUCP, Personal Mail) ..!pcrat!jetroff (JetRoff Info) ..!pcrat!dry2 (Dhrystone Submissions)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!pcrat!rick From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Troff font names for PostScript fonts Keywords: DWB troff ditroff PostScript LWIINTX Message-ID: <594@pcrat.UUCP> Date: 13 Oct 88 02:20:01 GMT References: <570@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1221@tmpmbx.UUCP> <379@h-three.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 23