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From: karl@umb.umb.edu (Karl Berry.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Courier and ptroff.
Message-ID: <697@umb.umb.edu>
Date: 2 Sep 88 16:25:31 GMT
Organization: UMASS-Boston, Boston, MA
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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.

We can get the entire document to come out in Courier with the
incantation `ptroff -F Courier x.ms'. Then italic comes out
in Courier italic, etc, etc. But this is not what we want.

Any help is appreciated.

Karl.
karl@umb.edu     ...!harvard!umb!karl