Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: troff italic greek Message-ID: <36700007@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 08:29:00 GMT Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #N:m.cs.uiuc.edu:36700007:000:1005 Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Aug 10 03:29:00 1989 I'm using "ptroff" on NeXT to generate postscript output from troff. Unfortunately, there is a problem with the symbol font. All the greek (upper & lower case) characters and numerals comes out in a normal face. However, the standard appearance in troff is italic for these characters. I have two questions: (1) Does adobe plan to fix this bug in their driver? Is there some way I can fix the driver by changing the data files? I doubt we have a source license with a vanilla NeXT box. (2) Probably the simplest fix is to change the psdit.pro files to CONS up a new font with italic greek and numerals, and then replace symbol temporarily on the server. Can someone suggest a few Postscript incantations to accomplish this, so I could add it to our psdit.pro file? Is this even possible? Any help is greatly appreciated. Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801 ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies