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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: what fonts allowed in troff .ft command?
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Date: 10 Nov 90 02:06:05 GMT
References: <1990Oct29.200132.26513@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1853@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <1853@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) writes:
<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.

All of this is well and good, only if your system has the fonts in a spot
where they can be gotten at.  This is site dependent.  See your system
administrator for documentation as to what your system has.
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