ncrebel@ndsuvax.UUCP (Howard Rebel) (10/15/88)
I am having problems with Earle Horton's Daisy v1.1 print driver. An extra end-of-line is generated after every four paragraphs. The problem can be reproduced by using MSWORD to create a line of text 50 characters long followed by a paragraph mark. Make 20 copies of the line and the paragraph mark. Print it. Setting daisy to send out only a CR as a line terminator and setting the printer to do auto LF on CR produce same results as when daisy's line terminator is CR LF and the printer set to not do a auto LF. When I replaced the serial printer with a terminal I got the same results. That rules out the printer as the problem. When I select the LaserWriter to print from I do not get the extra blank lines in the output. The computer is a Mac II with system 6.0 and finder 6.1. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Howard Rebel ncrebel@ndsuvax (Bitnet) ncrebel@plains.nodak.edu uunet!ndsuvax!ncrebel --------------------------------------------------------------------
earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) (10/18/88)
In article <1513@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncrebel@ndsuvax.UUCP (Howard Rebel) writes: >I am having problems with Earle Horton's Daisy v1.1 print driver. >An extra end-of-line is generated after every four paragraphs. >The problem can be reproduced by using MSWORD to create a line >of text 50 characters long followed by a paragraph mark. >Make 20 copies of the line and the paragraph mark. Print it. > Daisy is a rather simple-minded program. The height of a line of text is 11 pixels, period. When you give it lines which are not exactly 11 pixels high, then it throws off the code which keeps track of where to print. I don't use MSWORD much, but methinks the paragraph mark is some number of pixels high which is not an even multiple of 11. That will do it. Ah, yes, here we go! The paragraph mark is higher than a single line of text, at least in the default setup. You have to go into Paragraph Setup, and set up the inter-paragraph spacing to equal the line-to-line spacing, which must be 11 pixels. This implies, of course, that you should use Monaco 9 or Courier 10 for best results. Word is trying to give you WYSIWYG (what-you-see....) here. Therefore it is trying to leave a space between paragraphs equal to what is on the screen. Daisy simply has no way to tell Word that the only available vertical spacing is a linefeed. Word is assuming that, like with the ImageWriter, fractional linefeeds are possible. >The computer is a Mac II with system 6.0 and finder 6.1. A recent posting made reference to Daisy crashing under this configuration, or one like it. Watch it! Earle R. Horton. 23 Fletcher Circle, Hanover, NH 03755 (603) 643-4109 Sorry, no fancy stuff, since this program limits my .signature to three