resende@garnet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (08/11/87)
In a message posted to this network a few days Pat Sullivan writes: >In DWB Release 2, the '%' character is an undocumented escape character >which tells nroff to send out the following character code even if it is >greater than 0200. If this "feature" is present in older versions, it >may be simpler than rebuilding nroff. Following is an excerpt from our >nterm file for a LaserJet with an HP "M" cartridge; note the '%' used >to escape character codes greater than 0200: > ... >charset >ae 1 %\327 >AE 1 %\323 ... Where can I find a complete list of non-ASCII characters that can be passed to nroff via nterm? I am trying to build a nterm file for a printer with the IBM character set, which includes a few vowells + accents that I would like to use from nroff. Any suggestions?
pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan) (08/12/87)
In article <4664@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> resende@garnet.berkeley.edu() writes: >Where can I find a complete list of non-ASCII characters that can >be passed to nroff via nterm? If you don't have DWB 2, it's not as straightforward; press "n" now. With DWB 2 you basically have complete freedom here ... you specify the name of the character (i.e., the "\(xx" sequence you want to use in your source document) and also specify the character sequence that the printer needs to see to put this character onto paper. (Don't get carried away though; as distributed, nroff only allows 128 special characters - you may need to give up some Greek to get some European. This limit is not present with troff, but that's another story.) Look at /usr/lib/nterm/tab.* and the nterm(5) Reference Manual Page. ============================================================ Pat Sullivan - {akgua|ihnp4}!sortac!pls - voice 404-257-7382