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- From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: comp.text
- Subject: Re: Fixed-width fonts and TROFF
- Message-ID: <4709@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 05:45:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.184840.1126@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan5.184840.1126@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> alex@tpocc.gsfc.nasa.gov (Alex Measday) writes:
- <How do I embed fixed-width font text in a TROFF document? I use
- <"ptroff -man" for manual pages and "ptroff -ms" for documents on
- <a Sun workstation and I wish to display examples of C code, for
- <instance, within the text.
-
- You can't. Not with "ptroff", since it uses old troff, which can't load more
- than four fonts (normal, italic, bold, symbol). The normal, italic and bold
- can be set to a particular family.
-
- In order to get more than four fonts, either get Chris Lewis' psroff suite
- of programs, which cheats old troff into using more than four fonts. Or,
- better yet, get the James Clark groff suite of programs. Groff is DWB 3.0
- compliant. It allows for more fonts than I could ever dream of loading.
-
- Groff works great on a SPARCstation. I should know, I use it on one.
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