nancy@biomed.UUCP (Nancy J. Herrig) (05/20/85)
We have discovered that our Okidata printers will not automatically roll the paper backwards. This makes doing doing superscripting and subscripting from nroff somewhat awkward. However, printing equations from nroff on the printer is hopeless without the ability to roll the paper backwards. Is this problem unique to the Okidata family of printers?? We've got a Pacemark 2410 that we've be able to do some nice plotting on and are willing to do what it will take to make nroff print the equations. Has anyone done this already?? It doesn't seem like an easy task. Thanks in advance. --Nancy Herrig Biomed. Engineering Mass. General Hospital !wjh12!biomed
wcs@ho95b.UUCP (Bill Stewart) (05/21/85)
> We have discovered that our Okidata printers will not automatically > roll the paper backwards. This makes doing doing superscripting and > subscripting from nroff somewhat awkward. However, printing equations > from nroff on the printer is hopeless without the ability to roll the > paper backwards. Depending on how you use the oki (nroff table? postprocessor for tty37 escape sequences?) you may be able to get around it. If you use a postprocessor, you can use "col" to eliminate the need for reverse linefeeds. With no options it produces output for a "dumb" terminal; with -f it will use the ESC-9 forward-half-linefeed as well. -- Bill Stewart 1-201-949-0705 AT&T Bell Labs, Room 4K-435, Holmdel NJ {ihnp4,allegra,cbosgd,vax135}!ho95c!wcs