bb@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU (Brent Byer) (10/26/87)
In article <311@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes: >The characters used for \(br \(ul and so forth no >longer meet up properly. To fix this I changed the ditroff -> >PostScript translation stuff in our copy of TranScript ... It has been my experience, going all the way back to v7+ troff, that hacking on the rule characters is not sufficient to get desirable (i.e., *perfect*) results. Professional typesetters do not accept grungy corners; do you? Below is a simple input file which you can run thru tbl, troff and your post-processor software; getting this right is critical if you want to produce sharp corners and attractive borders. .\" process via "tbl FILE | troff -TyourDEV | yourPOSTPROCESSOR" .sp 1i .TS linesize(36) box; c. Is this a box or is this a crock? .TE ( Good night; I hope we passed the audition. ) Brent Byer Textware