Re: [Groff] fontselection

[Sigfrid Lundberg, NetLab]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Erich Hoffmann wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> this is only a question whether I've understood or not.  Using the -ms
> package, I'm selecting fonts with the .ft- request, e.g.
>
> ~~
> some text
> .ft CR
> more text
> .ft R
> original font.
> ~~

This is correct. In fact, the above works with any macro package. I tend
to use the syntax

some text \f(CRmore text\fP original font.

where font 'P' stands for 'Previous font'

> The font names I took from /usr/share/groff/fonts/devDEVICE.
>
> But then I have to decide what output I want, because -tdvi uses other
> fonts that -tps.  Is this true or are there other font selection ways
> which skip this difference between the devices?

To be pedantic -Tps and -Tdvi...

You cannot generally expect the same fonts to be available for different
devices. Times Roman is the default font with the postscript device,
whereas computer modern from TeX is the default with the dvi driver.


Sigge