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From: snichols@adobe.com (Sherri Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Getting Transcript 2.1 to use all LaserWriter Fonts
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Date: 14 Feb 91 18:56:51 GMT
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In article <1398@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <ip6G8#hl@cs.psu.edu> ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
><Let me clarify this.  What I really meant to as was how do I convience
><ptroff, the shell script which runs troff, to use a built in font that adobe
><did not already build the troff font files for?  By default the transcript
><installation only builds troff font data for AvantGarde, Bookman, Courier,
><Garamond, Helvetica, Helvetica Narrow, Lubalin, New Century School Book,
><Optima, Palatino, Souvenir, Times, and Zapf.  What about the other ~22 fonts
><my LaserWriter II NTX knows about?
>
>Good thing you re-stated the question, because my previous answer will be
>wrong.
>
>I think that you are SOL.  That version of TranScript just doesn't have the
>other font families built in.

There seems to be a fair amount of confusion on this point.  A LaserWriter
II NTX has 35 font *typefaces* built in.  All 35 typefaces are covered by
the above list of font families.  TranScript creates, from AFM files, troff
font width files for each typeface.  Each font family consists of several
typefaces, which are mapped to the 4 font positions troff understands.  
By default, ptroff uses the Times family, consisting of Times-Roman,
Times-Italic, etc.  To use a different font family with ptroff, you can use
the -F switch to specify one of the above family names.

Sherri Nichols
snichols@adobe.com