stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910) (11/15/90)
HELP! Does anyone know if troff (and not merely nroff) can be used with any inexpensive dot-matrix or ink jet printers? The particular printers that I have in mind are the HP Deskjet or Cannon BJ-10e. What sort of graphics emulation is necessary to get 'reasonable' output? Epson FX, IBM Proprinter (X-24E)...? Can the HP Deskjet emulate an HP Laserjet? How about a CAT (troff output) to PCL converter? Please no suggestions to use some other typesetting software (e.g. TeX). I have to use troff and need some inexpensive way to get 'local' draft copies of documents. I need 'true' troff output - the differences between nroff and troff are too great. If anyone has had experience with using troff on a non-laser printer, I would *very* much appreciate any advice you could offer. By the way, I'm a poor student, so I can't afford to buy some commercial troff/ditroff/eroff system - PD or cheap solutions only (I don't ask for much ;-). Thanks, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Patrick Stickler University of Helsinki stickler@cc.helsinki.fi ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////