Re: [Groff] Changing font in ".FG"

[Mike Bianchi]

Looking into the complaint about the fonts and MM .FG command, I discover
that this was fixed in 2006 and is in the current CVS download, but not in
the 1.18.1 version distributed with Ubuntu 8.04.

In fact, it was fixed by Werner in delta 2.29  2006-03-28, to
groff/contrib/mm/m.tmac,v ...

        . Hardwire first four font positions with R, I, B, and BI -- the
          documentation explicitly refers to this feature (cf. the `HF'
          string register).
        . Don't use `%' register in numeric calculations because it is
          affected by `.af'.
        Patches for both problems have been contributed by Nick Stoughton
        <address@hidden>.
        * m.tmac: s/@language/@country/.
        s/\n[%]/\n[P]/ where appropriate.
        s/\fR/\f1/.
        s/.ft R/.ft 1/.
        s/\fI/\f2/.
        s/.ft I/.ft 2/.
        s/\fB/\f3/.
        s/.ft B/.ft 3/.
        * mse.tmac: s/@language/@country/.
        * groff_mm.man (Fonts): New subsection.
        * groff_mmse.man: Load `sv.tmac'.
        Reformatted.
        examples/README: Cleanups and updates.


So the problem is that the fix is not currently wrapped up in a
distribution yet.


Werner, I'm new to all this.  What's the procedure for getting the
latest-and-greatest out to the distributions?

                                        Mike Bianchi


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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 10:29:04 -0400
From: Mike Bianchi <address@hidden>
To: Randall Allemang <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: <OK> [Groff] Changing font in ".FG"

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:20:25PM -0400, Randall Allemang wrote:
> I am a casual user of release 1.18 and would like to change the font in the
> figure title macro ".FG" . it is currently Times Roman and the normal font
> registers used by headings and other macros don't seem to have any effect.
> I have read through the pertinent sections of the MS and MM macros and also
> looked through the TC and EQN references.
> 
> As always, it will probably be a pretty simple fix or reference but I am at
> a loss to  figure it out.
> 
> Help!
> 
> Randall J. Allemang, PhD
> Professor of Mechanical Engineering
> Director, Structural Dynamics Research Lab
> 
> 685 Rhodes Hall, University of Cincinnati
> Cincinnati, Ohio  45221-0072
> 
> TEL:  513-556-2725
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I find that this works, especially if you simply want to format in
something other than the Times fonts:  R I B .

Using groff -mm

        .fp  1 H
        .fp  2 HI
        .fp  3 HB
        .ftr R H
        .ftr I HI
        .ftr B HB
        .DS
        Fig test
        .FG "Fig test caption"
        .DE

See  .fp  and  .ftr  in  groff(7) .

It shouldn't take both  .fp  and  .ftr  to make the change but
looking into the  /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/tmac/m.tmac , I find that there
both references to fonts by position and by hard-coded R I B names.

I'll take on the task of rationalizing that someday soon.

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