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
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Bill Stewart
AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705
...!ihnp4!ho95b!wcshenry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (11/13/84)
> 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? The LaserJet does full overprinting. I haven't tried a specific test case along these lines yet, but I have tried tbl tables with both boxes and text blocks, both of which use backward vertical motions heavily to "go back and finish things up". They work fine. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry