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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Troff font names for PostScript fonts
Keywords: DWB troff ditroff PostScript LWIINTX
Message-ID: <594@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 02:20:01 GMT
References: <570@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1221@tmpmbx.UUCP> <379@h-three.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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>In article <1221@tmpmbx.UUCP>, csch@tmpmbx.UUCP (Clemens Schrimpe) writes:
>> jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) writes:
>> <> Can anybody give me some suggestions about the two-letter fontnames for
>

Instead of wasting a letter to indicate bold, italic, or both,
I used upper/lower case to differentiate these variations in JetRoff.

	xx	'normal'
	Xx	bold		(capitalized looks kind of Bold)
	xX	italic		(looks a little slanted, don't you think)
	XX	bold italic

For backwards compatability, I kept R, B, I, H, HB, HI, CW, and S.
But I think for the future it makes much more sense to use the
two letters for the name, and the case for the style.

It's too bad so much of the name space has already been wasted...
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