rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) (05/09/89)
In article <1945@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, root@cca.ucsf.edu (who?) wrote: > 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 ... Historically, it has been possible to deceive nroff into dealing with proportional fonts, but there have always been some nasty surprises with respect to emboldening, underlining, etc. However, beware that in more recent DWB, the format of the character tables has changed--the ASCII characters are no longer in the terminal table! Their widths are all implicitly 1 "Char" unit, so there's no way (at least that I've been able to find yet) to play with widths. This is as of Version 2.0 of DWB, which you can recognize by the nroff tables being in /usr/lib/nterm (instead of term) and--hooray!--the tables are no longer compiled. The up side of this is that it's now easier, with ditroff, to make printers in the uncomfortable middle ground of capabilities handle troff's output. -- Dick Dunn UUCP: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd (303)449-2870 ...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew.