rog@rtech.rtech.com (Roger Taranto) (10/25/88)
A friend of mine would like to be able to print an English pound
symbol (you know, the script L with the bar through the middle), using
her Sun, and a Sun laser printer. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
-Roger
{mtxinu,pacbell,amdahl,sun,hoptoad}!rtech!rog rog@rtech.comwhh@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt) (10/26/88)
In article <2502@rtech.rtech.com>, rog@rtech.rtech.com (Roger Taranto) writes: > > A friend of mine would like to be able to print an English pound > symbol (you know, the script L with the bar through the middle), using > her Sun, and a Sun laser printer. Does anyone have any suggestions? Per my wife (who has done a *lot* of troffing), use \z-L. --Hal ========================================================================= Hal Heydt | "Hafnium plus Holmium is Analyst, Pacific*Bell | one-point-five, I think." 415-645-7708 | --Dr. Jane Robinson {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!pbhya!whh
jimi@h-three.UUCP (jimi) (11/01/88)
In article <2502@rtech.rtech.com>, rog@rtech.rtech.com (Roger Taranto) writes: > > A friend of mine would like to be able to print an English pound > symbol (you know, the script L with the bar through the middle), using > her Sun, and a Sun laser printer. Does anyone have any suggestions? The following general approach works. Without knowing some specifics, however, it's hard to say exactly what needs to be done. Assumptions: Sun is running some flavor of ditroff the laser printer supports PostScript If the Sun is running troff (not ditroff), then this won't work. In the rest of this posting, "troff" refers to ditroff. Notes: The troff name "ps" for the pound symbol is chosen for convenience; there is no standard troff name for the symbol. The "regular" PostScript typefaces (e.g. Times Roman, Helvetica) have the pound symbol as a character. The character set, defined for each output device in a file called DESC, lists the (troff names of) all characters in all the fonts that are available on the output device in a table called "charset". This table specifies the set of characters that are recognized by the output device described in DESC. In other words, there must be a troff name in DESC for all troff character names that occur in any of the font width tables for a particular device. The troff name "ps" should be one of the troff names in the charset in the DESC file for the laser printer. If "ps" is not present in the charset, add it (use the rest of the table as a guide). Make sure that the font width tables for the laser printer have a line in their charset tables that looks like this (field descriptions not part of font width table): TROFF POSTSCRIPT POSTSCRIPT NAME WIDTH A/D OCTAL CODE NAME charset . . . ps 56 2 0243 # sterling . . . In text, the user refers to the pound symbol as \(ps, e.g.: .P In London, currency trading went wild as the pound fell at an alarming rate. By mid-afternoon, shoppers queued outside shops as the price of a loaf of bread reached \(ps5. .TS c s l n . New Food Prices Bread \(ps5.00 Fish and Chips \(ps22.50 London Times \(ps4.25 .TE Adding characters to DESC and font width tables works similarly for other output devices, although font widths, of course, will vary, as will a character's code, for various output devices. Followups to comp.fonts? -- Jim Ingram uunet!h-three!jimi | jimi%h-three@uunet.uu.net h-three Systems Corporation P.O. Box 12557 RTP NC 27709 919 549 8334