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From: eric%UCBARPA%berkeley@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Loading fonts in ditroff
Message-ID: <2481@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 14:33:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 23 14:33:00 1983
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-me uses the numeric values for fonts internally because otherwise
you cannot load other fonts.  For example, if it were to use B for
bold font, it would only work if you had Times Roman loaded -- if
you wanted to use Hershey, the font change macros would die.  I
agree that this is a botch, but it seemed that the alternative was
worse.

eric