wcs@ho95b.UUCP (Bill Stewart) (11/10/84)
I just got an HP Laser-Jet, and am trying to find good ways to use it. For troff, the answer is easy; Brent Byer of Textware and Ken Greer of ELAN both offer ditroff output filters. I've seen Textware's and I'm really impressed; it can handle a reasonable amount of eqn output using the raster format, and produces good clean equations as well as standard text and perfectly-aligned tbl boxes. Both companies say they don't handle pic yet, but expect to support it in a few months. For basic line-printer work, I'm trying to find a filter that will handle the Roman-8 character set, to do umlauts, accent marks, and such. This is the same character set offered on the HP-150 and several previous terminals and printers. Does anyone have a filter that will drive it? How about a good System V LP spooling interface for the laser-jet? (The 2631a and hp(1) filters can't handle the job unmodified. I'm in the process of hacking them up, but I'd prefer to minimize the total amount of re-writing I do.) On thing I couldn't figure out from the manual: if I write stuff on a line, move to a different line and back, and then write more things, will the later stuff replace the former, or will both get combined? Thanks in advance, Bill Stewart {ihnp4,allegra,houxm}!ho95b!wcs AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ -- Bill Stewart AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ...!ihnp4!ho95b!wcs