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Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:50:36 +0000
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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.