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1.1     ! root        1: .TL
        !             2: Linotron 202 Font Catalog
        !             3: .AU
        !             4: Brian Kernighan
        !             5: Ken Thompson
        !             6: .PP
        !             7: The new 202 is more or less working,
        !             8: and some order has been brought out of
        !             9: font chaos.
        !            10: The attached pages list all of the characters
        !            11: currently available on the 202.
        !            12: Note that availability on the 202 does not
        !            13: imply availability on the Canon printers
        !            14: or on the MHCC APS-5.
        !            15: .PP
        !            16: The 202 has two floppy disk drives.
        !            17: We have about 130 fonts, and
        !            18: a single diskette can hold roughly 40-50 fonts.
        !            19: The typesetter is normally run with one diskette
        !            20: but can can be run with two.
        !            21: Accordingly, the fonts have been divided into three
        !            22: groups:
        !            23: common and/or new and/or interesting;
        !            24: less so;
        !            25: rare and/or old and/or boring.
        !            26: The division was made capriciously and arbitrarily
        !            27: but is not likely to change in the near future.
        !            28: In any case, the result is that fonts in
        !            29: category 1 will always be available,
        !            30: fonts in category 2 will probably be available,
        !            31: and fonts in category 3 will not be unless
        !            32: you replace a diskette and reboot.
        !            33: And of course you get to use fonts from only
        !            34: two diskettes in any one job.
        !            35: .PP
        !            36: To make all this work,
        !            37: some changes have been made in troff as well.
        !            38: Since two-character names
        !            39: can't cope with 130+ fonts,
        !            40: the .fp command in troff now accepts
        !            41: a third argument to specify a ``real'' name
        !            42: for a font.
        !            43: It is used like this:
        !            44: .DS
        !            45:        .fp 1 R Gillsans
        !            46:        .fp 2 I GillsansI
        !            47:        .fp 3 B GillsansB
        !            48: .DE
        !            49: which makes R, I and B synonyms for the corresponding
        !            50: Gill Sans fonts.
        !            51: You can use any one or two-letter names instead of
        !            52: R, I and B.
        !            53: .PP
        !            54: .fp 1 R Gillsans
        !            55: .fp 2 I GillsansI
        !            56: .fp 3 B GillsansB
        !            57: (This font is Gill Sans, in case anyone is interested;
        !            58: .ft I
        !            59: this is Gill Sans Italic;
        !            60: .ft B
        !            61: and this is Gill Sans Bold.)
        !            62: .PP
        !            63: .FP times
        !            64: Since many fonts consist entirely of weird nameless
        !            65: characters (look at Chempi, for example),
        !            66: troff now permits access to characters by their absolute number
        !            67: on a font: \eN\(fm123\(fm refers to character 123 on
        !            68: the current font.
        !            69: The lists here show the absolute number for each character
        !            70: that does not have a real name.
        !            71: .PP
        !            72: In the following listings, each font is introduced by
        !            73: a header of the form
        !            74: .DS
        !            75:        ZapfI 92 Zapf Book Light Italic
        !            76: .DE
        !            77: The first word is the troff name of the font, suitable
        !            78: for use in a .fp command.
        !            79: The number (92) is for internal use by d202.
        !            80: The rest of the line is the ``official'' descriptive name
        !            81: of the font, suitable for talking to typographers.
        !            82: .PP
        !            83: This is all somewhat tentative,
        !            84: so don't build anything too complicated
        !            85: on top of it.
        !            86: Complaints to bwk.

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