km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg) (01/04/85)
A while back I posted an inquiry about a technical
wordprocessor for the Mac. Many people were kind enough
to reply that Macwrite could be used for technical wp
by using the built in subscript feature, and adding
appropriate fonts. I even got a copy of the Princeton
Fonts, and it does indeed work reasonably.
However, this approach has its problems. Only one level
of subscript is possible in general (2 in some special
cases). Building oversize symbols on separate lines is
not really very convenent.
Does anyone know of efforts to produce a word processor
which supports technical wp more generally?
As a related question, has anyone done a DITROFF filter for
previewing TROFF output on the Mac?
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Ken Mandelberg
Emory University
Dept of Math and CS
Atlanta, Ga 30322
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km.emory@csnet-relay ARPANETedmoy@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (01/06/85)
As for previewing troff output, I've done using the already existing postprocessor `tc' (which produces output for previewing on a Tektronix 4014) and used VersaTerm on my Mac. troff -t (options, etc) | tc The results are pretty crude as the small character size on the Mac is proportionally too big and so characters overlap to a degree that it is pretty unreadable. I also have Tekalike, but haven't tried it yet. Edward Moy Computing Services University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 ucbvax!ucbopal!edmoy