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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Courier and ptroff.
Summary: ptroff reads "Listing" for "Courier" -- use \fL
Message-ID: <854@james.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 6 Sep 88 19:13:35 GMT
References: <697@umb.umb.edu>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <697@umb.umb.edu> karl@umb.umb.edu (Karl Berry.) writes:
|
|How does one use Courier in troff? I am posting to this group
|because our output device is a LaserWriter, and we are using
|Transcript's ptroff.
|
|We have the width table in /usr/lib/ps/troff.fonts/ftC.
|It seems to us that the following troff program (we ran it through
|ms, but that doesn't seem like it should be relevant) should
|do the expected thing:
|
|.fp 3 C
|\fB This should be typewriter? \fR And this roman?
|
|(That's the whole file.)
|
|Both questions come out in roman.
|

The ptroff program is bizarre. To get courier, you do not use the
obvious 'C' in font changes like \fC, but 'L', for 'Listing' (possibly
deriving from its use in printing source listings in a troff document.
The other Courier fonts (bold and italic) should be \f(LB and \f(LI.

At least, that's the way ptroff was working at our site. Your mileage
may vary.



	Sean Malloy
	Navy Personnel Research & Development Center
	San Diego, CA 92152-6800
	malloy@nprdc.arpa