Annotation of researchv10no/cmd/postscript/devLatin1/charlib/README, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: Postscript definitions for special troff characters. File names are
        !             2: the two character troff names. Each defines a PostScript procedure
        !             3: that begins with build_ and ends with the character's name. The
        !             4: build_?? procedure is called with the character width as it's only
        !             5: argument. The .map files contain extra character data (e.g. image
        !             6: data) that dpost downloads immediately after the build_?? call,
        !             7: if the character's font table code field is 2 (rather than 1).
        !             8: 
        !             9: The following PostScript variables are available:
        !            10: 
        !            11:        font            current font
        !            12:        ptsize          current point size
        !            13:        size            actual font size - scaled up from ptsize
        !            14: 
        !            15: Don't overuse this stuff!
        !            16: 

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