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From: | P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia |
Subject: | Re: [Groff] \F request? |
Date: | Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:30:00 -0500 |
At 06:08 p.m. 05/04/2002 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Dear friends, I would like to introduce the \F escape to select the font family, using the same syntax as the \f escape (no numbers, of course). I think there are a lot of applications for it, not solvable with a request. Unfortunately, I would then have to change the family name for Palatino to, say, `PA' to free the letter `P'. Opinions?
Hmm... Why would you need to free the letter P, if you mind my naiveté?Anyway, could this be an opportunity to change all font names to follow a somewhat ordered scheme like Karl Berry's fontname[1], and rather use aliases for the basic 35 fonts? This way it is made clear that the PostScript font metrics provided with the driver are for the Adobe versions of the fonts as existing in PS Level 1 and 2 printers and that if you want to use the URW++ fonts (as used in Ghostscript and most Linux/BSD systems today), with their PS level 3 extended charset and Euro support, you have to create the metrics yourself and install them somewhere as downloadable fonts (ideally under site-fonts/devps and downloaded from site-fonts/devps/download[.local], is the search path algorithm going to show up soon?).
[1] Notice I didn't say it was rational nor logical, and I won't discuss its merits on those grounds. I just find it practical.
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