mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons) (05/04/89)
hello, I am looking for [nt]roff macros (-man -ms -mm -me) for the Xerox XP-24 laser printer. please e-mail thanx in advance -Mike --- Michael D. Lyons phone: +49 911 6415 609 Nixdorf Computer AG fax: +49 911 6415 105 Geschaeftstelle fuer BA e-mail: mike@nixba.uucp Donaustrasse 36 D-8500 Nuernberg 60 Federal Republic of Germany
lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Lee Kolakowski) (05/06/89)
In article <371@nixba.UUCP> mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons) writes: > hello, I am looking for [nt]roff macros (-man -ms -mm -me) for the > Xerox XP-24 laser printer. please e-mail Macros are *not* specific for a particular laser printer. Nroff output is translated by specific tables in /usr/lib/nterm Otroff writes CAT output which must be translated by a specific cat2xxx filter Ditroff writes DiTroff output which must be translated by a dit2xxx filter. Adobe sells filters for postscript that are part of Transcript. Perhaps you should contact Xerox about filters for your work. -- Frank Kolakowski ===================================================================== |lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu || Lee F. Kolakowski | |kolakowski@mscf.med.upenn. || Univ. of Penna. | |c/o jes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu || Dept of Chemistry | |kolakowski@c.chem.upenn.edu || 231 South 34th St. | |bcooperman.kolakowski@bionet-20.arpa || Phila, PA 19104 | |AT&T: 1-215-898-2927 ||--------------------------| |#include <litigate.h> || One-Liner Here! | =====================================================================
brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) (05/06/89)
In article <371@nixba.UUCP> mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons) writes:
<hello, I am looking for [nt]roff macros (-man -ms -mm -me) for the Xerox XP-24
<laser printer. please e-mail
Unless I am missing something here (after a few years use of these packages
and nroff and troff), the macro packages are NOT printer specific. The
nroff program is designed for impact type printers, ie, dot matrix and
letter quality (daisy wheel, whatever) constant spaced characters. The
troff program was initially programmed for the C/A/T phototypesetter, so
the stuff coming out of it if very specific to the printer. Now there is
ditroff, which is device independent troff. We don't have that here yet,
though we will soon. With troff or ditroff, you need a post-processor to
massage the output to make it work with particular printers. Adobe Systems
makes the Transcript program to take troff (ptroff) and ditroff (psroff)
output and convert it to PostScript, for those kinds of printers.
So, as I said, the macro package is device independent. You need to spruce
up your troff program's output. Nroff cannot be used with proportional
spaced laser printers, especially PostScript.
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ARPA/INTERNET: brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.eduroot@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff) (05/06/89)
In article <1873@astroatc.UUCP>, brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: > > Nroff cannot be used with proportional > spaced laser printers, especially PostScript. > -- A little too strong here! We have done this for years using PS fonts on the Xerox 2700. It is tedious to set up the character table and needs a post-filter (at least the way I did it) but it certainly works. Thos Sumner (thos@cca.ucsf.edu) BITNET: thos@ucsfcca (The I.G.) (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos) U.S. Mail: Thos Sumner, Computer Center, Rm U-76, UCSF San Francisco, CA 94143-0704 OS|2 -- an Operating System for puppets. #include <disclaimer.std>
brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) (05/06/89)
In article <1945@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff) writes: <In article <1873@astroatc.UUCP>, brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: <> <> Nroff cannot be used with proportional <> spaced laser printers, especially PostScript. <> -- < <A little too strong here! We have done this for years using PS fonts <on the Xerox 2700. It is tedious to set up the character table and <needs a post-filter (at least the way I did it) but it certainly <works. I suppose I should have added as designed, nroff wasn't mean't for any printer except those that I mentioned. If anyone works hard enough at something, one can get nroff output to work. But, if one is going to work at nroff, it would have been better to work with troff as it likes to work with proportional spaced fonts and variable vertical spacing. I don't understand why you picked on nroff, verses troff. The only thing I can think of is that nroff outputs ASCII characters and troff the C/A/T phototypsetter garbage. -- harvard\ att!nicmad\ Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!brown rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ ARPA/INTERNET: brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu
lee@puffin.uucp (Lee Moore) (05/09/89)
As others have said, troff should be pretty much independent of macros.
The only case that special macros need to be used is with 4.x troff. In
this case, one needs to re-mount the standard fonts to get troff to read
the font metrics from disk. That's only a four line file.
As an aside, the name XP-24 doesn't say very much because "XP-24" is just the
name of the marking device. It accepts a video-like interface puts marks on
paper. If you want to use it from a computer, a controller must be added to
determine how it will behave. For example, the XP-24 can be packaged
with a certain controller to produce the Xerox 3700. With a much
different controller, it is the Xerox 3700+ (which, despite the similarity
in name, does very different things).
Lee
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