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From: jimi@h-three.UUCP (jimi)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Troff font names for PostScript fonts
Summary: yet another set of font names for troff
Keywords: DWB troff ditroff PostScript LWIINTX
Message-ID: <379@h-three.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 19:00:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: h-three.379
References: <570@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1221@tmpmbx.UUCP>
Organization: h-three Systems, Research Triangle Park,  NC
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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
> <> [di]troff that I should assign to the 35 built-in fonts of the Apple
> <> LaserWriter IINTX? Of course I can define some (sometimes even reasonable)
> <> names, but I want to use standards as much as possible.
> 
> We use the EROFF-package from ELAN Computer Group Inc.
> 
> The have a manual-page (psfonts.5), where I found the following:

We use a postprocessor, devps, that translates our ditroff output into
PostScript programs.

I'm posting the names devps uses for the LaserWriter IINTX built-in fonts
alongside the EROFF names. (Where EROFF and devps use the same names, the
devps column is blank.) Font names and Note 1 are reproduced, without
permission, from devps documentation copyrighted by Pipeline Associates, Inc.

It's hard to argue, except "religiously," in favor of one or the other;
this is a good example of a standard that's really needed. Any standards
groups want to make this an ANSI/ISO standard?

                            FONT NAMES

     EROFF 	PostScript			devps
 
 	R	Times-Roman
 	I	Times-Italic
 	B	Times-Bold
 	BI	Times-BoldItalic
 	H	Helvetica
 	HI	Helvetica-Oblique
 	HB	Helvetica-Bold
 	HX	Helvetica-BoldOblique
 	CW	Courier (Constant width)
 	CI	Courier-Oblique
 	CB	Courier-Bold
 	CX	Courier-BoldOblique
 	S	Symbol
 
 		Additional Fonts
 
 	PR	Palatino-Roman			PA
 	PI	Palatino-Italic
 	PB	Palatino-Bold
 	PX	Palatino-BoldItalic
 	A	AvantGarde-Book			AG
 	AI	AvantGarde-BookOblique		AI
 	AB	AvantGarde-Demi
 	AX	AvantGarde-DemiOblique
 	Z	Bookman-Light			Bm
 	ZI	Bookman-LightItalic		Bi
 	ZB	Bookman-Demi			Bb
 	ZX	Bookman-DemiItalic		Bx
 	N	Helvetica-Narrow		Hn
 	NI	Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique	Hi
 	NB	Helvetica-Narrow-Bold		Hb
 	NX	Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique	Hx
 	ZC	ZapfChancery-MediumItalic
 	ZD	ZapfDingbats			Z1, Z2 (see Note 1)
 	X	NewCenturySchlbk-Roman		NR
 	XI	NewCenturySchlbk-Italic		NI
 	XB	NewCenturySchlbk-Bold		NB
 	XX	NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic	NX

Note 1

	The font ZapfDingbats is divided into two troff fonts, Z1 and Z2,
	where Z2 is the upper 128 characters shifted onto the lower 128
	characters. This allows ditroff access to characters with codes
	greater than 127.

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