bowen@sunybcs (Devon E Bowen) (05/20/88)
As pointed out by Tim O'Reilly, I seem to have spread some incorrect
information to you all. In a previous post I said that troff output
generated spacing on a character by character basis and that devps
and other drivers eliminated this extra info and absorbed the spacing
between words. After looking over some troff output, I stand corrected.
Troff output does make up for spacing between words just as devps
prints it. It does also supply the character spacing info, but this
spacing is constant and only provided for printers that must print
character by character. I have, in the past noticed differences in the
printing of devps's word by word code and my character by character
code. But I now attribute this to errors in the accuracy of the troff
character width tables. I guess the lack of this feature is one more
argument for using TeX. My apologies to the people who make devps.
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