On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 05:37:15PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > the `.fam' request works just fine but seemingly not in combination > > with the -ms macropackage. [...] > > > > question: how to enforce palatino (or whatever) as the default > > family for a complete document _inside_ the document (not via the > > `-f' groff flag from the command line)? I would have thought calling > > `.fam' sufficiently early in the document source should do the > > trick. > > A quick look into groff_ms.man would yield the desired result :-)
whoops. thanks for responding nevertheless. I _did_ scan the groff (info) manual for everything relating to `.fam' but there the information w.r.t. interaction with `ms' is not available it seems... and simply looking at groff_ms.man is way to obvious and thus did'nt occur to me :-) sorry for unnecessarily spaming the list, joerg > > Text Settings > The FAM string sets the default font family. If this string is > undefined at initialization, it is set to Times. > > The point size, vertical spacing, and inter-paragraph spacing > for footnotes are controlled by the num- ber registers FPS, > FVS, and FPD; at initialization these are set to \n(PS-2, > \n[FPS]+2, and \n(PD/2, respectively. If any of these > registers are defined before initialization, the initialization > macro does not change them. > > The hyphenation flags (as set by the hy request) are set from > the HY register; the default is 14. > > Improved accent marks (as originally defined in Berkeley's ms > version) are available by specifying the AM macro at the > beginning of your document. You can place an accent over most > characters by specify- ing the string defining the accent > directly after the character. For example, n\*~ produces an n > with a tilde over it. > > > Werner
