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From: jeff@ism780c.isc.com (Jeff Copeland)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Two DWB DiTroff questions
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Date: 7 Jul 89 17:20:56 GMT
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In article <1867@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> bink@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ubben Greg) writes:
>Two DiTroff (System V.2 DWB) questions I'm stumped on...
>
>1.  Please explain why .bp must be written as .br \&\c `bp in the end macro.

Roughly, the last page needs text on it, because after the input text has
ended, troff won't create a page.  This used to be explained in
Kernighan's "A Troff Tutorial", or the appendices to the "Nroff/troff
User's Manual" in the old (pre-DWB 2.0) troff documentation.  

>2.  I created my own description files, and they work when I use ".ft K",
>    but if I try to access my fonts by font position (".ft 1") I get a
>    "Cannot open /usr/lib/font/devx27/1.out" error.  Using .fp doesn't

Fonts by number aren't recognized if no special font exists.