Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!alex
From: alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Troff font names for PostScript fonts
Summary: More reasonable names...
Keywords: DWB troff ditroff PostScript LWIINTX
Message-ID: <520@mks.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 13:11:18 GMT
References: <570@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1221@tmpmbx.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 52

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
> <> [di]troff that I should assign to the 35 built-in fonts of the Apple
> 
> I think they are all reasonable :-)

Some people have strange ideas about reasonable.
If you use SoftQuad Publishing System (sqtroff) then you can use reasonable
length names...  The following is from the postscript driver supplement:

AGBI	AvantGarde-BookOblique
AGBR	AvantGarde-Book
AGDI	AvantGarde-DemiOblique
AGDR	AvantGarde-Demi
BKDI	Bookman-DemiItalic
BKDR	Bookman-Demi
BKLI	Bookman-LightItalic
BKLR	Bookman-Light
CB	Courier-Bold
CBI	Courier-BoldOblique
CI	Courier-Oblique
CR	Courier
HB	Helvetica-Bold
HBI	Helvetica-BoldOblique
HI	Helvetica-Oblique
HR	Helvetica
HNB	Helvetica-Narrow-Bold
HNBI	Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique
HNI	Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique
HNR	Helvetica-Narrow
NSB	NewCenturySchlbk-Bold
NSBI	NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic
NSI	NewCenturySchlbk-Italic
NSR	NewCenturySchlbk-Roman
PB	Palatino-Bold
PBI	Palatino-BoldItalic
PI	Palatino-Italic
PR	Palatino-Roman
SYM	Symbol
TB	Times-Bold
TBI	Times-Bold-Italic
TI	Times-Italic
TR	Times-Roman
ZCMI	ZapfChancery-MediumItalic
ZDB	ZapfDingbats

You can use these names either with
	.ft ZCMI
or
	\f[ZCMI]
syntaxes.