twomey@sunybcs.uucp (Bill Twomey) (07/24/87)
Is there any way of letting nroff pass escape through
to the final document? I'm trying to play with an HP LaserJet,
and I need assorted coses preceeded by escape, \033.
I have tried putting them on lines with \!, which is supposed
to copy through the contents of the line. I have had no luck.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
-Bill
twomey@gort.cs.Buffalo.EDU Usenet: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!twomey
Bitnet: twomey@sunybcs CSnet: twomey%buffalo.csnet@csnet-relaylarry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (07/24/87)
In article <4219@sunybcs.UUCP>, twomey@sunybcs.uucp (Bill Twomey) writes: > Is there any way of letting nroff pass escape through > to the final document? I'm trying to play with an HP LaserJet, > and I need assorted coses preceeded by escape, \033. > I have tried putting them on lines with \!, which is supposed > to copy through the contents of the line. I have had no luck. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am not certain if this is "acceptable procedure", but on DWB for the 3B2, I insert escape codes literally using vi (i.e., CTRL-V followed by ESC), and they pass through nroff quite well. Neither I nor anyone else in my organization has ever encountered any bugs or problems in doing this on thousands of document pages during the past three years. I have heard from others that the above method is NOT "acceptable procedure", but if it works reliably on my nroff version, why not? <> Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York <> UUCP: {allegra|ames|boulder|decvax|rocksanne|watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry <> VOICE: 716/688-1231 {hplabs|ihnp4|mtune|seismo|utzoo}!/ <> FAX: 716/741-9635 {G1,G2,G3 modes} "Have you hugged your cat today?"
nga@root.co.uk (Nick Armitage) (07/28/87)
In article <1874@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: > In article <4219@sunybcs.UUCP>, twomey@sunybcs.uucp (Bill Twomey) writes: > > Is there any way of letting nroff pass escape through > > to the final document? I'm trying to play with an HP LaserJet, i don't know what the real way of doing this is because i'm not an nroff guru (although i have no problems getting ditroff to produce really wizzo output on our laser printers), but i recall this being a problem on a version seven (!) system which i used when i was still in diapers.. one of the users was trying to coax a diablo 630 to do something weird with escape codes. the operation which he wanted it to do was not described in the printer-specific file "T630-12" or some-such. not having source to regenerate the file, he hacked it using adb so that when he tried to print a code that he wasn't using for other things to the diablo, instead of doing nothing (normal behaviour for an undefined printer-specific character i think) it sent an escape to the diablo. i realise that this is a really ghastly hack, and that there may well be a kosher way to do this, but it worked. hope this helps.. nick - Nick Armitage, Root Technical Systems, 3 Hayne Street, London, EC1A 9HH. phone: +44 1 606 7799 fax: +44 1 726 8158 telex: 885995 ROOT G My opinions do not necessarily represent those of any ROOT-Unisoft company.
pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan) (07/29/87)
In article <4219@sunybcs.UUCP>, twomey@sunybcs.uucp (Bill Twomey) writes: > Is there any way of letting nroff pass escape through > to the final document? I'm trying to play with an HP LaserJet, > and I need assorted coses preceeded by escape, \033. > I have tried putting them on lines with \!, which is supposed > to copy through the contents of the line. I have had no luck. If you have DWB2, you can easily add special characters in your "/usr/lib/nterm/tab.???" file and then call on them in your document as "\(whatever". This also keeps your document from being hard-wired to the LaserJet.
finegan@uccba.UUCP (Mike Finegan) (08/13/87)
> i don't know what the real way of doing this is because i'm not an nroff guru > (although i have no problems getting ditroff to produce really wizzo output > on our laser printers), ... I have a problem with neqn, and since DEC software support can't help, maybe someone has solved the problem already, or can at least send me a copy of a tabXXXX.c file that definitely works for the problem. The problem: I follow the directions of BSD manuals, and enter control codes into a file containing a structure (took the default, and put my codes in) appropriate for terminal definition file for nroff -TXXXX . I can get everything to work for DEC LN03 laser printer (as well as for LA100f w/ greek/math character rom), except the square root 'macro?'. If I print the same escape sequence (via C program), it creates a beautiful square root. Assuming strings in parens represent one octal code, or one character, I use a line similar to: "/201{char to shift font}{char to go up half line}{bottom of sqr root} {char to go back up half line}|{char to go up another half line}{the top char of sqr root}{char to go back down half line}{char to go back to default font}", For the LA100f output goes through a filter, for LN03, it goes right to the printer. Obviously neqn/nroff must split the sqr root symbols up into several categories. Characters appearing once before a repeatable character, the repeatable character, and characters appearing once after the repeatable character. There is obviously some format neqn/nroff is looking for, assuming it ever worked. Can anyone help? I have older source for nroff, but couldn't find mention of sqrt, or similar. The root en 'macro?' has a similar problem, but only two characters. > not having source to regenerate the file, he hacked it using adb ... Is there a readable guide for adb, and can it be used gainfully by mere mortals ? :-) Thanks for anything, Mike Finegan Univ. of Cinti. ...!hal!uccba!ucece1!finegan