Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!pshuang From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: WordPerfect, Greek and Backwards letters Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 21:37:50 GMT References: Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Distribution: comp.text Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: kl88a@ecs.soton.ac.uk's message of 12 Jun 91 18:03:16 GMT In article kl88a@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Kris Lockyear) writes: > 1) I need to occaisionally print letters in mirror image. I have > managed to work out how to do this in raw PostScript (by working Wordperfect has an option to send a printer control sequence to the printer (Format:Other) which may be able to help you somewhat. But I'm not positive that it would work for you since the printer codes may end up being embedded in text and not be recognized for Postscript code. Another solution might be to use a drawing program to create images (EPS would be the best, not sure if WP can import that properly) of these mirror-image letters (you can even use the same font as the rest of your text if you have the right font support in your drawing program) and import them as graphics boxes in WP. > 2) I need some Greek to come out in bold but when set to bold it > doesn't. Presumably the Greek letters come from the postscript > symbol font of which there isnt a bold version. Postscript should always be able to bold a font if it does not already have the human-crafted bold typeface somewhere. I do not have direct experience with bolding the Symbols font, though. -- Above text where applicable is (c) Copyleft 1991, all rights deserved by: UNIX:/etc/ping instantiated (Ping Huang) [INTERNET: pshuang@athena.mit.edu]