Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Help. makedev in DIPRESS Message-ID: <786@thalia.rice.edu> Date: 6 Jun 88 23:48:36 GMT References: <44900008@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <317@elan.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 25 In article <317@elan.UUCP> kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes: >From article <44900008@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>, by kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu: >> >> My only beef with ditroff is the limitation of ten fonts per device. > >Ditroff has no font number limit, per se... Also remember that ditroff's idea of a font is a little more far-reaching than most everyone else's definition. A "font" in ditroff spans all possible point sizes. Thus one can ask for .ft R and use it at any available point size (10, 12, 18, 24, etc.) and it still only counts as one font. The different point sizes are all considered to be proportional to one another. In other words, 12 point widths are exactly twice 6 point's, and 24 point widths are exactly twice 12 point's. So "ten fonts" means (for example): Roman, Italic, Bold, Helvettica, typewriter, script, Lucida, TimesRoman, TimesBold, special. Each font is available at all the "standard" point sizes. I'm not saying I like ditroff's approach...just that that's the way it does it. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University