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From: henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton)
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Subject: Re: what fonts allowed in troff .ft command?
Summary: Anything You Like
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Date: 30 Oct 90 21:50:31 GMT
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In article <1990Oct29.200132.26513@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) writes:

    *  Our n|troff manual says that the permissible letters
    *  for a .ft <font> command are R, I, B, or S; yet I have
    *  received a file that uses .ft C quite happily; I
    *  believe it means Courier.  How can I find out what
    *  letters are allowed on my system for this command?

Whose n|troff manual are you reading?

You can use any one-letter or two-letter combinations you
like for the names of fonts.

Generally, you have the problem of mapping real world font names
to one or two letter combinations.  Some typical combinations
I've seen are:

	H	Helvetica
	HI	Helvetica Italic
	HB	Helvetica Bold
	PA	Palatino
	PI	Palatino Italic
	PB	Palatino Bold
	PX	Palatino Bold Italic
	ZC	Zapf Chancery
and so on.

	........  Henry