colin@torch.UUCP (colin) (10/23/86)
I am trying to include some formatted output from a program in a document which is being formatted using troff. To do this I am using the .DS and .DE macros (MM macros), e.g: .DS $ ls7 fred bill bert albert harold jim egbert jane janet john $ .DE I am using troff in conjunction with TranScript (from Abobe) together with a PostScript laser printer. The TranScript system provides Times and Helvetica proportional fonts for use with troff which consequently do not produce aligned output in such a display. Does anyone know a way round this problem ? Thanks in advance for any help.
guy@sun.UUCP (10/27/86)
> I am trying to include some formatted output from a program in a document > which is being formatted using troff. ... I am using troff in conjunction > with TranScript (from Abobe) together with a PostScript laser printer. > The TranScript system provides Times and Helvetica proportional fonts for > use with troff which consequently do not produce aligned output in such a > display. > > Does anyone know a way round this problem ? Thanks in advance for any help. 1) System V, Release 1 had a "cw" command that provided some sort of support for a "constant-width" font. Unfortunately, the old-style "troff" provided with S5R1 didn't support more than four fonts; "cw" required you to choose whether to mount the constant-width font on font position 1, 2, or 3, so you had your choice of giving up the regular, Italic, or boldface version of the standard font. 2) "troff" disappeared from S5R2; you have to buy the Documenter's Workbench software to get it. However, you then got Typesetter-Independent "troff", which can handle more fonts simultaneously. I believe TranScript supports translating TITROFF output to PostScript. We have a constant-width font named "L" here (I don't know whether it comes with TranScript or not) and that's how we produce that sort of stuff. -- Guy Harris {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)
crocker@ihwpt.UUCP (ron crocker) (10/28/86)
> > I am trying to include some formatted output from a program in a document > which is being formatted using troff. To do this I am using the .DS and .DE > macros (MM macros), e.g: > > .DS > $ ls7 > fred bill bert albert > harold jim egbert jane > janet john > $ > .DE > > I am using troff in conjunction with TranScript (from Abobe) together with > a PostScript laser printer. The TranScript system provides Times and Helvetica > proportional fonts for use with troff which consequently do not produce aligned > output in such a display. > > Does anyone know a way round this problem ? Thanks in advance for any help. You can do this using tbl, a program that formats data into tables. Use the following: .DS $ ls7 .TS l l l l. fred->bill->bert->albert harold->jim->egbert->jane janet->john .TE $ .DE where -> represents a TAB (ASCII ^I). When you format this, do tbl filename | troff (the same old options you had) This should give you something better. Ron Crocker AT&T Bell Laboratories Room IH 6D535 Naperville-Wheaton Road Naperville, IL 60566 (312) 979-4051
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (10/29/86)
In article <2@torch.UUCP> colin@torch.UUCP writes: >I am trying to include some formatted output from a program in a >document which is being formatted using troff. ... Fixed width text looks awful unless you have a fixed width font. There are some constant width troff fonts available, but I have never found them pleasant to use (on the other hand, I switched to TeX before trying ditroff). Your particular example is probably best done with tables; see the tbl documentation. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu