chip@killer.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) (02/03/88)
In article <3176@killer.UUCP> I wrote: > The problem is that nroff will only produce 7-bit characters... In article the referenced article, carvalho@garnet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Marcio de Carvalho) responded: > Maybe what follows doesn't apply to your version of nroff. I run DWB 2.0 > on an ATT 3b2... You can enter 8-bit characters in the "charset" table > by preceding it with a "%". This doesn't work with SCO's Text Processing System. The nroff tables are generated by a different method, and '%' is not accepted. The "trigger character" approach I am using is kind of similar. Instead of '%', I use '\177'. The kludge is that you need the filter on the output to translate back to 8-bit characters. But, there is no pain involved here, because I already need to run that filter to do my overstriking. The problem which still remains is that col(CT) munches the non-printing characters. So I can either get greek characters or I can get tbl tables, but not both. Hey SCO...with all this internationalization hype, why not make the text processing system work for 8-bit characters? -- Chip Rosenthal chip@vector.UUCP | But if you want to sing the Dallas Semiconductor (214) 450-0400 | blues, then boy you better {texsun,codas,ihnp4}!killer!vector!chip | learn how to lose.
wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul) (02/03/88)
In article <3193@killer.UUCP> chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes: > >The problem which still remains is that col(CT) munches the non-printing >characters. So I can either get greek characters or I can get tbl tables, >but not both. Hey SCO...with all this internationalization hype, why not >make the text processing system work for 8-bit characters? > Somebody (Doug Gwyn?) recently sent me a pd source to col, which I will upload sometime later this week, which ought to lend itself to modifcations for eight-bit codes. Hope this helps you to get GREEK TBL tables :-) ! Wolf Paul ihnp4!killer!wnp