laser-lovers@uw-beaver (04/16/85)
From: udenva!hao!robert@lbl-csam.arpa (Robert Chatfield)
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Has anyone gotten TEX going on the HP Laserjet yet? I would guess that
this involves translation rather like that to daisy-wheel printers, since
one would mostly have to use the cartridge fonts.
We are interested in using these machines as peripheral printers, with
the more complex scientific material going to more expensive laser printers.
Perhaps they could do more: We've seen what the TPlus software can do
with regular troff on the Laserjet. With the F Times Roman cartridge from HP,
the printed page is very impressive indeed -- the only limitation is in the
variety of font sizes available. This software does use the graphics
memory of the HP and we were afraid we'ld run out. We ran out a nice
treatise on partial differential equations and operators, and had no trouble
with memory at all.
We're leaning towards TEX though, and would like to know it could
do as good a job. Will this have to await HP's promised Scientific font,
or has anyone developed for the current fonts?
Robert Chatfield
Air Chemistry -- Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder CO 80307 303-497-1443
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