On 5/13/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> At 2023-05-10T12:28:02-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
>> > And I just learned (or maybe relearned) this is a deviation from
>> > AT&T troff's .ss units, which are a fixed 1/36 em.
>
> I am beginning to think that it was only Ossanna troff for which that
> was tr
CSTR #54 says this:
> .bd F N
>
> The characters in font F will be artifically emboldened by printing
> each one twice, separated by N - 1 basic units. A reasonable value
> for N is 3 when the character size is near 10 points. If N is missing
> the embolden mode is turned off. The emboldening v
In case anyone never noticed,
> Any positive size value may be requested; if invalid, the next larger
> valid size result, with a maximum of 36.
Judging by the behavior of DWB 3.3 troff, this is incorrect in two
respects.
1. The maximum type size is determined by the "sizes" directive in the
[self-follow-up]
At 2023-05-13T02:03:11-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2023-05-10T12:28:02-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > On 5/10/23, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > > Nonintuitively, .ss's units aren't in fractions of standard
> > > typographical measurements, but 1/12 of the current font's
> > > or
At 2023-05-10T12:28:02-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 5/10/23, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > Nonintuitively, .ss's units aren't in fractions of standard
> > typographical measurements, but 1/12 of the current font's ordinary
> > space.
>
> And I just learned (or maybe relearned) this is a deviation from
