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From: wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu (Fred Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re:
Message-ID: <Ac1QOJq00VsPMB=mYm@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 14:39:17 GMT
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Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from mail: 12-Apr-91 anil@control.UChicago.ED (349)

> I was reading your posting in comp.text and wondered if
> you could help me with a problem: is there any way to
> obtain Hebrew 'aleph' in troff? (It exists in TeX as
> simply \aleph. Is it possible to get its postscript
definition from TeX and use it in troff?).

The file below prints a line with an aleph just before the word aleph. 
PostScript supports aleph as character \300 in the symbol font.  The 10
and 12 are the width and height, respectively.  The "-2 6" is supposed
to adjust the character position, it might need further adjustment.

Fred Hansen

--------------cut here --------------
.so /tmp/psmac
.IZ
.nr IN 36p
.nr LT 432p
.nr PO 54p
.br
.ad b
'ft R
.nr PS 12
.ps \n(PS
.nr VS 14p
.vs \n(VSu
.nr EN 8n
.sp 0.5i
.nr DP 1
.ds Fn \fR
.ds HF R
.nr HS \n(.s
.ds FF R
.nr FS \n(.s
.RS
'ta 36p 72p 108p 144p 180p 216p 252p 288p 324p 360p 396p 432p 468p 504p
540p 576p 612p 648p 684p
.nh
this line has an 
'PB 10 12
'if  \n(zT  \{\
\!    10 troffadjust 12 neg translate
\! /Symbol findfont 12 scalefont setfont -2 6 moveto (\300) show
\}
'PE 10 12
aleph in it