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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: looking for Amiga fonts
Message-ID: <1690@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 19:56:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1690
Posted: Mon Sep 28 19:56:32 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 03:48:50 EDT
References: <852@cadnetix.UUCP> <2339@cbmvax.UUCP> <176@usl>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 58
Summary: Actually text formatters

In article <176@usl> prm@usl.usl.edu.UUCP (Patrick Royce Michaud) writes:
>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  :-)

Correct.

>
>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!

Ok, time to let a cat out of the bag.

Yes I do have an NROFF(*) for the amiga. Right now.

Yes, I even have one that speaks Postscript. Right now.

With a catch.

It only knows about the monospaced courier font at this point in time.
I'll be doing the other fonts this week, assuming this cold I have
doesnt kill me.

I'll post it to .binaries if there is intrest.

* Its actually PROFF...

>Send mail, check, money-order, or hard-drives.

Me too.

>Patrick R. Michaud			ut-sally!usl!prm
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