Standard font

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

The U2 instruction file includes this admonition:

PRiNter Files
Ensure that fontname STANDARD is associated in your PRiNter
file(s) (*.PRN) with a monospace display and printer font (e.g.
COURIER10), in both the FA: and FP: tables (SEarch for "FA:N" and
"FP:N"). The lines should say something like this:

FA:3
COURIER10=COURIER,1,66,154,201,211,240,250,260,280,290,LINEPRINTER,STANDARD
...
FP:3
COURIER10=STANDARD,1,66,154,201,211,240,250,260,280,290
...
At home I invariably print using TYP, Postghst.prn, Ghostscript,
and GSView. Postghst.prn is, to the best of my knowledge,
pristine and unaltered, and its FA and FP stanzas read as follows:

FA:3
COURIER10=COURIER,1,66,154,240,260,201,211,250,280,290,STANDARD
DUTCH=ANTIQUA,BOOKMAN,CHARTER,GROTESK,NEWCENTURYSCHLBK,PALATINO,TIMES,UTOPIA,ZAPFCHANCERY,5431,5451,5559,5579
SWISS=AVANTGARDE,HELVETICA,HELVETICA-NARROW,34103,34123,34231,34251
;
;PRINTER FONT ASSOCIATION TABLE:
FP:6
COURIER10=COURIER,STANDARD,1,66,154,201,211,240,250,260,280,290
DUTCH=ANTIQUA,BOOKMAN,CHARTER,GROTESK,NEWCENTURYSCHLBK,PALATINO,TIMES,UTOPIA,ZAPFCHANCERY,5431,5451,5559,5579
SWISS=AVANTGARDE,HELVETICA,HELVETICA-NARROW,34103,34123,34231,34251
COURIER=COURIER10,1,66,154,201,211,240,250,260,280,290
TIMES=DUTCH
HELVETICA=SWISS

In settings.dfl, I have the following default set:

df uf=standard
Yet inevitably if I forget (as I too often do) to specify a font
at the beginning of a file before printing it, it comes out in
Zapf Chancery. A lovely font for a Christmas card, but not
something I want to read 5 pages of technical discussion in.

What am I doing that's throwing a spanner in the works?
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx