> I'd like to expand the font options for troff in my installation. > How might this be accomplished? I've kept your mail in my inbox for nearly a year because I'd been meaning to look into this. I finally got around to it and figured out a method of sorts: 1. Obtain postscript versions of the font. The file with the font data has the extension .pfa or .pfb The file with the font metrics has the extension .afm I tested on the following materials: http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/urw/garamond.zip https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/urwfonts-1.0.zip https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/utopia-1.0.zip https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/charter-1.0.zip Apparently there are tools to convert from other formats. 2. Convert the font metrics to a troff font description. The attached awk script is something I hacked up to do this: convpsfont ugmr8a.afm GA # URW Garamond This creates a file GA which should look something like this: name GA fontname GaramondNo8-Reg spacewidth 26 charset ! 26 2 33 " 42 2 34 &c... Choose a name not in conflict with those in /sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/ Check the contents of this file makes sense; I haven't tested many fonts and my script may need adjustment or the output may need to be tweaked by hand. The troff font format is described in: /sys/doc/troff.ps!32 The .afm format can be found at: http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/font/pdfs/5004.AFM_Spec.pdf Put the resulting file GA in /sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/ or else use troff's -F flag to point to the dir that holds it. You can now rm the .afm file or else keep it with its .pfa/.pfb 3. Let postscript see the font. Put the font (.pfa/.pfb) in /sys/lib/postscript/font/ I put mine in a subdir called useradded. Add an entry at the bottom of /sys/lib/postscript/font/fontmap: % fonts added by user GaramondNo8-Reg useradded/ugmr8a.pfb Create a file called /sys/lib/postscript/troff/GA: 0x0000 0x00ff GaramondNo8-Reg 0x2010 0x2044 GaramondNo8-Reg 0xfb00 0xfb06 GaramondNo8-Reg You can use other fonts for ranges missing from your font. 4. Let ghostscript see the font. cd /sys/lib/ghostscript/font && mk 5. Test. echo '.sp 1i .ft GA .ps 14 Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. ø ß á ä à æ ¼ ½ ¾ © ¶ §' | troff | page ps2pdf will embed the font and make it printable everywhere. Hope this is useful to someone, Travis