laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (10/11/84)
From: decvax!esquire!newman@uw-beaver.arpa
We now have four HP LaserJets, and, for $2990 a piece at 47th Street
Photo, you can't find a better replacement for the Daisy-Wheel printer.
We run them directly off the printer ports of our Terminals (vt220s, Ann
Arbor Ambassadors, Televideo 950s).
The font selection is limited, although getting better. We have one
font cartridge with Bold and Italic Courier 10 pitch and a line printer
font. Another has proportional fonts, with Times Roman in 8 point
medium, 10 point medium, italic and bold, 14 point Helvetica Bold and
the line printer landscape (yes, six fonts).
We have hired a consultant to produce a TROFF conversion program and
it seems to work well as a pseudo-typesetting machine. (The problems seem
mostly to be to get his software to run on the Pyramid) One problem so
far: The amount of control sequences, which are numerous combinations of
Escape codes, can be so large that it takes up to 30 secs. send a
typeset page at 9600 baud.
Any one with questions is free to contact me, via mail or phone.
Edmund Newman
Davis Polk & Wardwell
(212) 530-4420
...cmcl2!rna!esquire!newmanlaser-lovers@uw-beaver.UUCP (11/02/84)
From: sun!idi!kiessig@Berkeley Does anyone know of a troff (i.e. CAT) filter to drive the HP Laserjet printer? Or perhaps a ditroff back-end for it? Or any other similar S/W for it? Seems like a reasonable unit. Richard
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (11/02/84)
From: William LeFebvre <phil@rice.ARPA>
Is it possible to put many different point sizes into the HP at the
same time? Troff likes to have at least 12 different sizes available
at the same time (especially if you want to use eqn). I was under the
impression that this could not be done. If this is true, then a troff
translator isn't going to do you a whole lot of good. You would be a
little better off with ditroff, since you can at least tell it what
point sizes are available.
William LeFebvre
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
<phil@Rice.arpa>laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (11/07/84)
From: cornell!akgua!sdcsvax!pjohnson@uw-beaver.arpa (Paul Johnson) Contact Ken Greer at ELAN computing (hplabs!kg). paul johnson ucbvax!sdcsvax!pjohnson [[Editor's note---the original question was whether troff was available for the HP Laserjet. --Rick ]]
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (11/09/84)
From: cornell!vax135!houxm!mhuxr!amhey@uw-beaver.arpa Laser lovers do you have Xerox 2900 fonts I am in Palo Alto on 415-856-4343, ask for A. Hey or G. Engle. We need troff consultants to do UNIX documentation, summer jobs for students and faculty!
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (11/10/84)
From: Tw Cook <hp-pcd!hpcvln!tw@uw-beaver.arpa> Ken Greer has written a ditroff back-end for the laserjet; you can contact him at: Ken Greer ELAN Computer Group 260 Alta Vista Ave. Los Altos, CA 94022 (415) 948-8193 mail to hplabs!kg or kg@hplabs.CSNET should reach him.