kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) (02/26/90)
Well, now that I've installed the new hard disk,
and gotten uPort nroff installed on my 6300+,
I'm getting itchy to figure out how to use ditroff
with this setup. Unfortunately, all I have is an
okidata 192 printer. But I keep thinking, if I can
write a filter which turns the instructions output
by troff into rasters, I'll have turned my printer
into a slow-crummy-but-servicable fake typesetter!
ok, so it doesn't REALLY have enough resolution, it'd
be fun to play around with anyway.
1. Has anybody out there done such a thing? (a previewer, perhaps?)
2. How can I find an accurate discription of the output of ditroff?
(so I can write an interpreter)
3. Is this a lot harder than it sounds? Is there a better solution?
Kris A. Kugel
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ssbn!hico2!kak <--semi-dailypusateri@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri) (02/27/90)
In article <196@hico2.UUCP> kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) writes: >Well, now that I've installed the new hard disk, >and gotten uPort nroff installed on my 6300+, >I'm getting itchy to figure out how to use ditroff >with this setup. Unfortunately, all I have is an >okidata 192 printer. But I keep thinking, if I can >write a filter which turns the instructions output >by troff into rasters, I'll have turned my printer >into a slow-crummy-but-servicable fake typesetter! >ok, so it doesn't REALLY have enough resolution, it'd >be fun to play around with anyway. > >1. Has anybody out there done such a thing? (a previewer, perhaps?) Well, having a similar problem with a unix-pc and an epson rx-80 dot matrix printer, I came up with the following scheme: I use the ditdvi package that was posted to comp.sources.misc by Ken Yap (v02i101) a few years ago. This turns my ditroff output in TeX dvi output. I then can preview it with the tex3b1 previewer and print to my epson with the dvieps filter. What comes out is beautiful looking ditroff output. (I knew TeX had to be good for something!) You'll need a bit of disk space for all of the TeX fonts though. Tom Pusateri National Biomedical Simulation Resource Duke University Medical Center pusateri@nbsr.duke.edu