sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) (05/21/85)
(Gee, he needs even more help...)
Does anyone have a list of character descriptions for some of the weirder
characters available?
Here is the problem:
One of our yet-to-be-installed special fonts (CMATHX) from Imagen
is a math extension set which some instructors here would like to use.
I can see what the charset looks like because Imagen provides a
compiled sample page. Unfortunately, they did not give us a character
map table along with the raster files. I could build one by hand, but
I don't know what kind of special names to give these guys. For
example, "\(sq" is the name for the square root symbol. This character
set, however, has quite a few that aren't in the troff manual. There
are five different kinds of radical symbols, two sigmas, some integral
symbols with little circles in the middle (I don't know what they are
for), ovals, and even something that looks like a little sign with a
wavy line in it.
So, does anybody have a neat file with these kind of descriptions
in them? Or failing that, is there a way to call up an absolute
character number with ditroff? Like if I wanted 122 in my charmap
table could I do it? I've pored over the manual and can't seem to find
anything. The alternative I'm looking at is to invent new names for
these characters and hope they don't break anything (yuk).
Is there a better way?
Sean
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