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From: dana@dino.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee)
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Subject: Re: xtroff
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Date: 1 Mar 89 14:05:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: ndd@romeo.cs.duke.edu's message of 28 Feb 89 22:50:13 GMT

In article <13690@duke.cs.duke.edu> ndd@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Ned D. Danieley) writes:

   I finally got xtroff to work, using the patches from Mark
   Moraes, and, frankly, the scaled vfonts
   look terrible.

Yes, they do.

 I tried to use my Imagen fonts, but haven't had
   any success; I think the names are a problem. I saw a note back
   in October about using other fonts, but I was wondering if
   there is a latest and greatest version of xtroff that in which
   everything works right, and font support is easy to handle.

The Imagen fonts will work VERY well, because they are matched to the
DESC file used when you ran the troff.

Here's how to make things work.  First you need the bitmaps for the
imagen (this won't work if your fonts are stored on your imagen server (box)).

In the top level Imakefile,
	RSTFONTS= 'the location of your imagen bitmaps'
	SUNTROFF_FONTS = 'the location to put your X fonts'
	DEVICE = 'the name of your imagen as known by ditroff, i.e. 300'
	WIDTHDIR= 'where your troff devices are kept, i.e. /usr/local/lib/font'
	MAKEDEV = 'where your makedev program is kept'
	PERCENT=40

Define -DNOADJUST in the CFLAGS

after making xfonts, you will have an X font directory filled with
files called dev300.i.10.snf (where dev300 is replaced by whatever you
pass to ditroff for the -T option).

If there are more problems setting up xtroff with imagen fonts (the
only ones I use), send mail and maybe I can help.  xtroff looks really
good with the right fonts.

   Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu)
   Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory
   Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center
   Durham, NC  27710
   (919) 684-6807 or 684-6942
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