Loading fonts in ditroff

[mark at rochester.UUCP]

From: Mark Kahrs  <mark>
arizona!whm's message brings to mind a caveat that we have "discovered"
(uncovered is more like it) when trying to port ditroff to our laser printer.
This concerns the use of macro packages (such as ms or me) with troff...
It so turns out that both ms and me wire in the fonts 1 thru 4. We were
unable to make our macro packages work until we moved the timesroman
fonts to positions 1 through 4. Unfortunately, this "inhibits" the use
of other fonts with the standard font packages...
Furthermore, we found it necessary to name the fonts 1 through 4.
Other sites may not have found this necessary, but we certainly have.
Now what I'd like to know is WHY ditroff doesn't emit a "w" after a tab!

Mark.