Re: [Groff] how to set default font family

[Joerg van den Hoff]

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