Re: [Groff] \F request?

[P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

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.

--
Alejandro López-Valencia
http://dradul.tripod.com/
Lo que Natura non da, Salamanca non presta.
            Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas


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