Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!elan!kg
From: kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: help with fonts & troff
Message-ID: <263@elan.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 21:47:10 GMT
References: <27@dcs.UUCP>
Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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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  position with
> the troff command
>                          .fp 4 xx
>   Troff gives an error message:
>                          "font xx is to big for position 4"

Your font xx is *longer* than font 4.  That is, font xx has
more characters than font 4.  The space troff has allocated
for 4 is too small to hold xx.

This problem existed in older Troff's -- it's fixed in DWB 2.0.
If you have DWB 2.0 source, look at "biggestfont" in your DESC file
and make it as big as any font you have (or 255 if you feel
like wasting memory.)

If you don't have DWB 2.0, trying mounting xx at another position.
-- 
Ken Greer
Elan Computer Group, Inc.
415-322-2450 
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