smith@ethos.UUCP (Gary J. Smith) (12/03/85)
I recently encountered a problem trying to get my Epson FX-85 to do superscripts and subscripts in nroffed files. After a call to the AT&T Hotline and some work, here is a way to get around the problem. Make an executable sed file named "Epx" (or any name you prefer) containing this script (it's one line): sed -e "s/^8//" -e "s/^9//" -e "s/8\([^]*\)9/S0\1T/" -e "s/9\([^]*\)8/S1\1T/" -e "s/..*[8]\([^]*\)$/S0\1T/" -e "s/..*[9]\([^]*\)$/S1\1T/" Then use this command to nroff your text file: nroff filename | Epx > filename2 Then print out filename2. The super/subscripts will work great. Hope that helps some of you who have been baffled with your Epson printers and 7300s. Gary Smith decvax!duke!ethos!smith