mclure@SRI-UNIX@sri-unix (05/27/82)
Date: 27 Apr 82 13:24-PDT
>From one of our users:
Because we do a lot of stuff with math in it, we are big users of the
Greek surrogates via nroff. These range from excellent (e.g. lower-
case sigma) to ludicrous (e.g. lower-case epsilon).
I have seen commercial word processing systems that use the double-headed
daisy wheel printers with ASCII characters on one daisy and Greek on
t'other. It strikes me that someone in the far-flung world of UNICES
must have seen this and married such a page printer with a UNIX.
Such a lashup would save us pots of time, because we now have to
convert ludicrous surrogates to space-holders (or opaque the output),
then rub down transfer-type Greek and math symbols.
Are you aware of any installations in which a UNIX drives such a
double daisy with Greek on the second element? If not, how major
a hassle to write a TTY driver to do so?wm (05/29/82)
I saw an ad yesterday for a new daisy wheel printer that has two characters on every "petal" of the daisy. This may be a less expensive alternative to the two-headed daisy. Or there is always the NEC spinwriter with its thimble.