Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!usl!prm From: prm@usl.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: looking for Amiga fonts Message-ID: <176@usl> Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 04:01:38 EDT Article-I.D.: usl.176 Posted: Thu Sep 24 04:01:38 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 14:24:02 EDT References: <852@cadnetix.UUCP> <2339@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: prm@usl.usl.edu.UUCP (Patrick Royce Michaud) Organization: CACS, Univ of SW La, Lafayette, LA Lines: 35 In article <2339@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP writes: > Most of >the Amiga font-point names are concerned with the height of the font, which is >really strange, since back when publishing meant hand-setting type, the width >of the characters was the main thing to be concerned about. > I agree totally, but it seems that almost all of the typesetting languages I've seen for any machine (e.g. troff) use the height of the font as the point-size, instead of the width. Probably because you don't have to worry about vertical proportional spacing :-) Along the same lines, is anyone aware of a public-domain troff (or troff-style) typesetter or print formatter for the Amiga? It doesn't need to be a complete implementation, just something to handle the basic troff-ish commands. Source code would be appreciated. Even nroff would be helpful; I could re-route it to PRT:. Barring this, is anyone else interested in a troff-like typesetter for the Amiga? If there are other people who would be interested, I'd probably finally get the motivation to write one. Granted, it's not a full fledged word-processor, but if you're in a position like me (i.e. having to use a variety of UN*X boxes and troff is what's usually available), it'd be nice to be able to port documents from UN*X to the Amiga and back. Also, considering Amiga's graphics capabilities, a good troff-previewer wouldn't be out of the question, either! Well, time to get back to writing that laser-printer driver for my Amy... (sigh) Anyone have any luck writing printer drivers from Manx 3.4a? Send mail, check, money-order, or hard-drives. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick R. Michaud ut-sally!usl!prm USL NASA Project Leader -or- #include prm%usl.csnet@csnet-relay