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From: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: troff font expansion
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.165300.7394@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 90 16:53:00 GMT
Reply-To: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Organization: Dept. of Biology, Columbia Univ., New York, NY
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We use standard troff and its output is piped to lpr (on Sun os4.0.1).
The default mounted fonts are R, I, B and S on positions 1, 2, 3, and 4
respectively.  Now I need another font, e.g. Courier. How I can expand
the list of fonts to troff?  The document says fonts can be mounted or
replaced on positions 1, 2, and 3 by using the .fp command.  But I tried
and the results are not expected. For example, I tried to switch the
default fonts R, B, I to, say, positions 3, 1, 2, respectively, but the
output still followed the default setting. Thanks for any information.

-ping      ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu