Path: utzoo!utgpu!utfyzx!harrison
From: harrison@utfyzx.uucp (David Harrison)
Date: Thu Jan 28 10:58:49 EST 1988
Message-ID: <1988Jan28.105849.2053@utfyzx.uucp>
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using several fonts in troff
References: <3680031@nucsrl.UUCP> <17495@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: harrison@utfyzx.UUCP (David Harrison)
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto

In article <17495@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
> If you want more fonts and generalized typesetter support then
> you need ditroff (new troff) which generates a typesetter independant
> pass which is processed by various output filters for various devices.
> You can change fonts arbitrarily there.

Also, beware of some macro packages.  MM in particular has hard-coded
the 4 font positions of old-troff, so one needs to map the desired fonts
corresponding to the font postions.  Here's an mm example for Helvetica:
	.fp 1 HR
	.fp 2 HI
	.fp 3 HB
-- 
    David Harrison, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto
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