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Subject: Re: UNIX, Berkeley Font Catalog
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Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 12:09:09 EDT
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From: hplabs!bragvax!david@Berkeley
You seem to be confused about the Imagen troff support software.  The
catdvi program reads a "catab" file to determine which glyph from which
"RST" format font file to assign to each of the 512 CAT characters.  You
can look at the "chartab.txt" file to see the exact mapping, but in
general the Roman font maps to "cmr", Italic to "cmti" and "cmi", Bold
to "cmb", and Special to "cmsy" and "cmathx".  The standard catab does
not include any sans serif characters.

In order to access other Imagen fonts from a troff document, you have to
make your own catab with the charmap utility.  Unfortunately, Imagen
refuses to provide any documentation on this process.

If you want to use the Berkeley fonts, you will have to convert them to
RST format (good luck), then make a new catab.

By the way, Imagen recommends buying ditroff and their Impress
postprocessor if you want to use other fonts.  The package costs $1K for
the postprocessor and some mysterious amount for the ditroff binary
license (or $4K for the source license from AT&T, probably less for a
school).

David DiGiacomo, BRAG Systems Inc., San Mateo CA (415) 342-3963
(...decvax!ucbvax!hplabs!bragvax!david)