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From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: What features would you like in GNU troff?
Summary: Need both fonts in the same document
Message-ID: <166@unmvax.unm.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 89 23:41:56 GMT
References: <779@pcrat.UUCP> <355@wjh12.harvard.edu> <8388@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3236@gos.ukc.ac.uk>
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In article <3236@gos.ukc.ac.uk>, iau@ukc.ac.uk (I.A.Utting) writes:
> >As quoted from <159@unmvax.unm.edu> by brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd):
> >| A feature we have not implemented, but think desirable is font families,
> >| so that switching to _italic_ means italic of the current font family,
> >| for example.
> >
> To another extent, this can most easily be done by having different
> typesetter (-Txxx) variants for each "family". For instance, for
> PostScript printers, I have -Talw as the default with Times Roman descriptions
> stored as R, I, B and BI; -TalwH analogously with Helvetica bold described in
> the R, I etc. files. And so on.
> 
The point of my feature is that this works using two or more font families
in the same document, so that switching to italic when setting a subhead
in Helvetica means Helvetica italic and switching to italic when setting
text in Times means Times italic.

Walt Brainerd   Unicomp, Inc.  brainerd@unmvax.cs.unm.edu