font families in GNU troff (was: Changing header/footer font in mm)

2024-05-05 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Thomas, Sorry for the delay in getting back to this. At 2024-04-24T10:23:19+0200, Thomas Dupond via wrote: [...] > >> > At 2024-04-21T23:52:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > >> > > For mm, what I would do is set up the mounting positions to > >> > > replace Times with Helvetica. > >> > >

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-24 Thread Thomas Dupond via
"G. Branden Robinson" a écrit : > Hi Jan, > > At 2024-04-24T07:53:51+0200, Jan Eden wrote: >> On 2024-04-24 00:07, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> > At 2024-04-21T23:52:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> > > For mm, what I would do is set up the mounting positions to replace >> > > Times with He

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Jan, At 2024-04-24T07:53:51+0200, Jan Eden wrote: > On 2024-04-24 00:07, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2024-04-21T23:52:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > For mm, what I would do is set up the mounting positions to replace > > > Times with Helvetica. > > > > > > .fp 1 HR > > > .fp 2

Re: Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-23 Thread Jan Eden
Hi Branden, On 2024-04-24 00:07, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [self-follow-up] > > I had forgotten about a contribution Nikita Ivanov made in 2022. > > At 2024-04-21T23:52:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > For mm, what I would do is set up the mounting positions to replace > > Times with

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] I had forgotten about a contribution Nikita Ivanov made in 2022. At 2024-04-21T23:52:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > For mm, what I would do is set up the mounting positions to replace > Times with Helvetica. > > .fp 1 HR > .fp 2 HI > .fp 3 HB > .fp 4 HBI I retract this a

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Jan, At 2024-04-19T04:13:11+0200, Jan Eden wrote: > On 2024-04-18 14:47, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > 1. If the _layout_ of the headers and footers is fine, and you > > desire only to change the font they use, that is easily done with > > the mm macros `PH` and `PF`. For example: > > > > .

Re: Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread Jan Eden
Hi Branden, On 2024-04-18 14:47, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Jan, > > At 2024-04-18T07:11:44+0200, Jan Eden wrote: > > there is probably a really simple solution to this, > > Not exactly. At the time the mm(7) macro package was developed by the > Unix Support Group (possibly an anachronist

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2024-04-18T14:48:02-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > In my experiment (attached): > > .EH "''even header''" > .OH "''odd header''" > .EF "''even footer''" > .OF "''odd footer''" As usual, I forgot the attachment. Regards, Branden .PH "'\F[P]Smith'page %

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Damian, At 2024-04-19T07:06:26+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > The original MM was done by John Mashey and D.W. Smith from Bell Labs > at Piscataway. They worked on the Programmers Workbench UNIX variant > at Bell Labs. Doug can enlighten you on where that fells into the > overall Bell Labs stru

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread Damian McGuckin
The original MM was done by John Mashey and D.W. Smith from Bell Labs at Piscataway. They worked on the Programmers Workbench UNIX variant at Bell Labs. Doug can enlighten you on where that fells into the overall Bell Labs structure. - Damian

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Jan, At 2024-04-18T07:11:44+0200, Jan Eden wrote: > there is probably a really simple solution to this, Not exactly. At the time the mm(7) macro package was developed by the Unix Support Group (possibly an anachronistic name selection on my part), the notion of a "font family" was not represe

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Thomas Dupond wrote: You can add .fp 1 HR after .fam H, it will do the trick. Although I have to admit I would have expected .fam H to be enough to also change header/footer font. Headers are, I think, processed is a different environment to main text. It needs somebody

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread Thomas Dupond
Le 2024-04-18 à 07:11, Jan Eden a écrit : Hi, there is probably a really simple solution to this, but I cannot find it in the docs. When selecting a default font in a mm document like this – .nr N 1 .fam H . .TL Title .AU "Author" .MT 4 . .H 1 "First Heading" .P Some text. – all text is set in

Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-17 Thread Jan Eden
Hi, there is probably a really simple solution to this, but I cannot find it in the docs. When selecting a default font in a mm document like this – .nr N 1 .fam H . .TL Title .AU "Author" .MT 4 . .H 1 "First Heading" .P Some text. – all text is set in Helvetica, except for the header/footer (Ti