ped@left.UUCP (10/02/87)
After trying to decided on the best group to send to I came to this one as the only one that might work. I wish to put an esc (ascii 033) sequence in my text of an nroff document to turn on the color of the printer. How do we do it? If I send the file directly to the printer (cat file | lp) the escape sequence works fine. If I run the file through nroff (nroff file | lp) forget it, garbage HELP.
pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan) (10/05/87)
In article <102@left.ATT.COM> ped@left.ATT.COM (P. E. Davidson) writes: > I wish to put an esc (ascii 033) sequence in my >text of an nroff document to turn on the color of the printer. You might try defining a special character or two in your nroff tab file. We've used this successfully with our LaserJet to turn on and off underlining; we use: US 0 \033&dD UE 0 \033&d@ to start and stop underlining, so that we can have regular, bold, and true italic; with any of the three underlined as well as normal. ============================================================ Pat Sullivan - {akgua|ihnp4}!sortac!pls - voice 404-257-7382