[comp.sys.sun] Can SunOS/ptroff use multiple font families?

rmg@uunet.uu.net (Rich Geiger) (11/16/90)

I'm using SunOS 4.0.3 and ptroff.

I need to generate troff formatted documents which include multiple font
families (specifically Times Roman for general text and Courier for
constant spaced code examples and so forth. (Similar to the way the SunOS
"Using nroff And troff" manual is set.)

Is this possible? It sure looks like it, assuming that Sun used troff to
produce the documentation for their "Documentation Tools" manualk... but
then, I guess I wouldn't be completely shocked if they haven't.

Anyway, I expected to be able to "mount" different font families with .fp,
but it doesn't seem to work. Also, it looks like you can only specify a
single -F<family> option on the ptroff command line.

Can anybody tell me whether (& if so how) this can be done?

Thanks in an anticipatory way,

 - Rich Geiger
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