[fa.laser-lovers] Postscript illustrations in troff files

laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/11/85)

From: mcgregor@decwrl.ARPA (Scott McGregor)

Has anyone figured out how to convince troff to pass Postscript
literals through transcript to a Postscript printer?  The goal
is to use troff for the text and Postscript for the illustrations.

Scott.

laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/12/85)

From: Dave Cohrs <dave@wisc-limburger.arpa>

  Has anyone figured out how to convince troff to pass Postscript
  literals through transcript to a Postscript printer?  The goal
  is to use troff for the text and Postscript for the illustrations.

  Scott.
I haven't tried this exactly, but there is a directive for device-
indepedent troff that could do the job:
	.cf file
copies the contents of 'file' into the troff output file at this point,
uninterpreted.  The manual notes that this will cause problems in troff
unless the file restores current horizontal and vertical positions.
I'm not sure if this will work correctly, as troff's output still needs
to be translated by the actual device filter, but it's worth a try.

Dave Cohrs