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From: jw@daedalus (Pegasystems)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Troff font names for PostScript fonts
Keywords: DWB troff ditroff PostScript LWIINTX
Message-ID: <1441@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 88 10:21:11 GMT
References: <570@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1221@tmpmbx.UUCP> <520@mks.UUCP>
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In article <520@mks.UUCP> alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White) writes:
>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

    lines deleted

>TR	Times-Roman
>ZCMI	ZapfChancery-MediumItalic
>ZDB	ZapfDingbats
>
>You can use these names either with
>	.ft ZCMI
>or
>	\f[ZCMI]
>syntaxes.

If you are using version 2 dwb, which is begining to be common, the long names
may be used with a font name aliasing scheme which is not much documented yet
but is in the release notes. the method used is an expansion of the .fp request
to allow a third argument which is used to reference to font in the font tables
while the second argument which is limited to 1 or 2 chars is used by the .ft
and \f requests.
ex:
	.fp 5 AG AGBR
	.fp 6 Q ZCMI
	.ft AG
	this is in AGBR\fQ and this in ZCMI

As this may be used with fonts who are named with short names I find it to be
usefull for nameing my fonts according to their function rather than their
face.  For example I might use the short name Q for the font that I use for
quotes that way if it is decided to use another font at a later date to
I can simply change the .fp line instead of the entire document, and I reap
the added bonus that I use a mnumonic font name so that I don't need to
keep a list of what font numbers are used for what function.