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Re: AT&T DWB2.0 question

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From: Ken Greer
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1989 20:06
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From article <323@vidiot.UUCP>, by brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot):
> 
> This is a quick and simple question:
> 
> I currently have MicroPort's version of AT&T's Documentor's Workbench 2.0.
> Is it true that DWB is imited to the loading of 10 font positions?  I tried
> doing a .fp 11 and 12 (with appropriate fonts names) and the PostScript output
> showed that they both were assigned to position #1.  Not good.  I changed them
> to 7 and 8 and everything is just fine.
> 
> If this is really true, then I suppose I can play games by shifting fonts
> in and out as required.

The font mount table takes up a fair amount of space, so on the
286, it is likely that Microport lowered the font mount table
to say 10.  Not an inherent limitation of DWB, though.
Note... Watch out you don't stomp on the Special font (s).  Try...

		troff -Tzzz < /dev/null

where zzz is your printer type, and it will print the mounted fonts.
Don't mount on position S or troff won't work.

Ken Greer  Elan Computer Group, Inc. 888 Villa St. 3rd Floor Mt View CA 94041
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Subject: Re: AT&T DWB2.0 question
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