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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:50:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A5CE67A.7060607@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101100016.AAA13091@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>

Steve Kilbane wrote:

> ... My experiences with troff were
> that there were hardly any fonts; ...

troff does not supply fonts, merely makes available
whatever fonts are supported by the specified target
device.  Note that there is no presumption that these
are raster fonts; they might be molded type metal.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-11  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-07 15:17 rob pike
2001-01-08  9:54 ` Luis Fernandes
2001-01-08 16:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-08 20:07   ` Dan Cross
2001-01-12  9:32     ` saroj
2001-01-12 17:17       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-12 17:51         ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 16:25         ` saroj
2001-01-12 18:20       ` William K. Josephson
2001-01-12 18:51       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 16:31         ` saroj
2001-01-08 17:19 ` James A. Robinson
2001-01-08 19:21   ` Howard Trickey
2001-01-09  9:38     ` Andy Newman
2001-01-09  9:54       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-10  0:16 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-11  9:50   ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-08 15:17 John A. Murdie
2001-01-08 10:29 John A. Murdie
2001-01-08 15:06 ` Mark C. Otto
2001-01-02 10:54 steve.simon
2001-01-03  8:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-05  9:49   ` [9fans] " John E. Gwyn
2001-01-05 14:52     ` Boyd Roberts
2000-12-27 19:26 James A. Robinson
2001-01-02 17:44 ` John E. Gwyn
2001-01-05  9:48 ` Allan J. Heim
2001-01-05 14:54   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-05 19:29     ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-06 17:53       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-07  1:20         ` Steve Kilbane
2000-08-19 21:44 Boyd Roberts

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