brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) (07/19/89)
This question is probably more for Adobe than everyone, but if you know the answer, please send it to me via e-mail. We have the Adobe Transcript package and 4.3BSD troff (working on getting ditroff). When using enscript and Courier, the stuff comes out in constant width (default 12 cpi). But when ptroff is used with Courier, the resulting output to the printer is beaten into proportional spacing. How do you tell ptroff/troff that Courier should be a constant width character? Does one use the troff .cs command? By default, are the Adobe files that describe Courier make it normally a constant width font or a proportional spaced font? If it is normally a constant width font, that would explain the resulting PostScript file that really messes with the placement of the characters (I never really saw more than two characters per PostScript output line). Now, the other major question. How does one tell enscript to use a font like Helvetica as a constant width font? I am guessing that it can't be done, without making new AFM files redefining the characters. Again, please e-mail the answers, as I don't think this is of general net interest. -- harvard\ att!nicmad\ Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!brown rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ ARPA/INTERNET: brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu