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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm documentation format problems (tmac.n problems?)
Message-ID: <1254@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 24 Aug 89 08:29:28 GMT
References: <1252@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1989Aug23.224527.313@DSI.COM>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <1989Aug23.224527.313@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:

>jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) writes:

>>e.g. referring to the 'C' font i.s.o. the 'CW' font on some places.
>There is no standard per se for font names, but since postscript
>refers to Courier as C, we used that.  I have seen many choices
>for the font names.

Uhhh... the rest of the Elm documentation refers to CW i.s.o. C !!
It's true that there are no standards in that, but what do you mean
with "PostScript referring to Courier as C" ?? The one-or-two-letter
troff fontnames are determined by the tables and the ditroff
postprocessor (in the case of ditroff).

In order to circumvent the problem as much as possible you could
use a mounted font position, e.g. "\f5", and mount at the beginning
of each document the font: ".fp 5 CW". This would make life easier
for people naming the Courier font XY :-).

Nevertheless, use ONE name for ONE font in all your documentation.

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