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From: libes@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Don Libes)
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Subject: catdvi (yes, it exists)/ inserting fonts into troff, how?
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 00:42:45 EST
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> Does anyone have a program that converts from troff `cat' phototypesetter
> output to dvi file?  I need such a beast desperately.  Thanks...

We have one that came from Imagen.  They claim it is no longer a
distributed product so they might be willing to give it away.

Interestingly, I only stumbled across this the other day, when I
was trying to load in other font families into a troff document.

We have an Imagen 5/480 with release 2.1 of the Imagen software.
We do not have ditroff.  What I would like to know is, how do you
reference other fonts from within troff.  I.e. I would like to say
".ft helvetica10" or something like that.

The last person I spoke to at Imagen didn't know how to do it, and
commented that we ought to buy ditroff from AT&T, and some font
licenses from Imagen.  I pointed out that there were a hundreds of
fonts on our distribution tape (all Knuth's "computer modern" fonts
which are in the public domain).  They said they were in "dvi"
format and useful only to TEX.  But, that is apparently true only in
the (relatively) new version of the Imagen software which converts
right from cat to imp files.  The old software converts from cat to
dvi to imp files and really does use the dvi fonts on the
distribution tape.

So my question is, how can I reference the dvi fonts from within
troff?

Please forgive me if I sound naive about this stuff.  I am.  This
is not my area (and no one here knows any more).  Thanks.
Don Libes        {seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!libes