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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Suitable Fonts
Keywords: troff fonts
Message-ID: <105@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 90 15:48:17 GMT
References: <1990Jan30.152047.24187@DRD.Com>
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <1990Jan30.152047.24187@DRD.Com> mark@drd.Com (Mark Lawrence) writes:
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<I've got a file full of raw troff with the following font references:
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<105 rtd:/home/drd/mark% grep \.fp foo.troff
<.fp 1 PA
<.fp 2 PI
<.fp 3 PB
<.fp 4 PX

These are the Adobe TranScript names for the Palatino font family.  If you
have a Bookman font, try that.  Otherwise, the old standby: Times-Roman.

<unfortunately, in /usr/lib/font I've only got:
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<ftB     ftbb    ftci    ftdi    ftgr    ftmn    ftoe    ftsc    fttB fttr
<ftCW    ftbi    ftcl    ftdr    fthb    ftmr    ftoi    ftsg    fttI ftts
<ftI     ftbk    ftco    ftgb    fthn    ftnb    ftor    ftsh    fttR
<ftR     ftbr    ftcr    ftgf    ftm     ftni    ftpb    ftsi    fttS
<ftS     ftcb    ftcy    ftgi    ftmb    ftnr    ftpp    ftsl    fttb
<ftap    ftch    ftdb    ftgk    ftmi    ftob    ftsb    ftsr    ftti

I'm guessing at the names, but you could first try the ftb series, then
the ftc series, which I think are Bookman and NewCentury, respectively.
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