Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site arizona.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!arizona!whm From: whm@arizona.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: More fonts in troff? Message-ID: <2334@arizona.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 21:31:53 EDT Article-I.D.: arizona.2334 Posted: Sun Jun 5 21:31:53 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 01:26:52 EDT Organization: CS Dept, U of Arizona, Tucson Lines: 30 I'm sure that everybody that uses troff is irritated by the restriction placed on the number of fonts (4) that can be mounted at one time. I understand that ditroff has a much larger limit, but, like a number of people, we have ditroff, but don't have it working on anything. Has anybody hacked up troff to handle more than four fonts? I know about the Lincoln-Sudbury nroff enhancements, but I don't believe they're applicable to troff, i.e., they appear to be nroff-specific. The version of troff that we use with our typesetter was hacked up by a long-left wizard to accommodate 8 fonts at the expense of some size bits. We'd like to have vtroff do the same things that our version of troff can do, but nobody has gotten up the steam to unmodify the portions of our troff that are typesetter specific. Does anybody know if vcat is bound to four fonts, or if it would be fairly easy to make it deal with more fonts if troff didn't have the intrinsic limitation. On a slightly different subject, the Berkeley Font Catalog in 2C of the manual set alludes to digitized bitmap fonts that are available from Johns Hopkins that are apparently of higher quality than those that come with 4.1bsd. Does anybody know anything about the fonts from Johns Hopkins or about availability of fonts that are of higher quality than what comes on 4.1[2?]bsd. I would have posted this to net.text, but it looks like the group creation message has been lost or hasn't made it out this far yet. Bill Mitchell whm.arizona@rand-relay {kpno,mcnc,utah-cs}!arizona!whm