artp@motbos.UUCP (03/04/87)
Does anyone out there have experience in embedding non-printing ASCII characters
in an nroff file ? For example, the NEC Laser Printers use an ASCII FS (Form
Separator) character to control various font / print modes. I have had no
problems embedding an ASCII ESC (Escape), but the FS is stripped out.
I have tried using translations (.tr), escape character redefinition (.ec),
multiple backslashes, \&, etc. All result in the FS being stripped out of
the output stream.
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Regards,
Art
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> Does anyone out there have experience in embedding non-printing ASCII > characters in an nroff file ? For example, the NEC Laser Printers use an > ASCII FS (Form Separator) character to control various font / print modes. > I have had no problems embedding an ASCII ESC (Escape)... I'm rather surprised that you got away with ESC. Nroff/troff converts its input entirely into its own internal alphabet while processing, and if the character you want isn't in the internal alphabet, you're up the creek. There is no way, short of getting something else through and then translating that into the character you want. -- "We must choose: the stars or Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology the dust. Which shall it be?" {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry