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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: help with fonts & troff
Message-ID: <27@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 12:53:04 GMT
References: <7088@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <7088@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> carvalho@garnet.berkeley.edu (Marcio de Carvalho) writes:
 >               I tried to load the extra font in a  preselected  posi-
 >          tion with the troff command
 >
 >                          .fp 4 xx
 >
 >
 >               Troff gives an error message:
 >
 >                          "font xx is to big for position 4"
 >
 >

I believe this has to do with the fact that TROFF expects font 4 to be its
"SPECIAL" font, which is print to display most of the characters represented
by escape sequences (i.e. \(bu, \(dg, and greek/maths characters).

Apparently TROFF knows how many characters ought to be in that font and
burps if that does not match reality.

If that is so, mounting a font other than "S" in fp 4 is likely to give
strange results, even if TROFF let you mount it.
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