u31b3hs@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt) (01/17/91)
Archive-name: text/troff/mroff/1991-01-07 Archive: u31b3hsmroffcip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet:mroff [mail] Original-posting-by: u31b3hs@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt) Original-subject: MROFF & Hindi project sources, Readme Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Hello world! A few weeks ago, I announced a textformatter named MROFF, which is capable to produce nice output on epson compatible printers and on Hercules Graphics Cards. This formatter is not full troff, but very macro compatible. There are -ms and -man like macro packages. All fonts are included. These fonts are edited versions of the Hershey fonts, so all sizes from 8 to 90 points are available. You will need a winchester drive to use MROFF, because of large temporary files needed by the printer drivers. The current version is for PC MINIX 1.5.10, but the code also compiles and runs on SUN workstations, so I think that it is portable. There is support for writing in Hindi, one of the many Indian languages. This is the result from the "Hindi project", well known by some people reading the newsgroup soc.sulture.indian. A MROFF preprocessor and a font is included in the following parts. There is also a preprocessor, which allows to do spell checking using the MINIX dictionaries. Full documentation about MROFF, the Hindi project and a -ms macro tutorial are included. The sources are uuencoded 13-bit compressed shell archives. After removing headers, you should get the following files: CRC LEN NAME CONTENTS COPY TO DIRECTORY 18222 31196 doc_sh.uue documentation mroff/doc 04133 28191 driver_sh.uue device drivers mroff/driver 39830 37641 hfont_sh_uue.1 fonts, part 1 /usr/lib/hfont 33693 32656 hfont_sh_uue.2 fonts, part 2 /usr/lib/hfont 47399 2094 include_sh.uue header files /usr/include/local 61352 10293 misc_sh.uue preprocessors mroff/misc 04227 6135 mmac_sh.uue macros /usr/lib/mmac 25379 36541 mroff_sh.uue mroff sources mroff/mroff The fonts are a splitted uuencoded 13-bit compressed shell archive. After copying each part to its suggested directory and concatenating the two font files, uudecode and uncompress. Then use sh to unpack the shell archives. If a sysadmin of one of the big ftp sites archives this program, please send me email. I am looking for a place, where I can archive my own sources and make them world-accessible. It would be nice, to get my own path on some of these big ftp sites. Unfortunately, there are problems to open my own archive on our local university ftp server. (No technical problems, you understand? :-( ) I hope that everything works ok until now, because I really hate postings with damaged or missing files; but you know Murphy's law. If there are any questions, bug reports (with fixes :-) ), or anything else you can send me email to: u31b3hs%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet DO NOT USE THE ADRESS IN THE HEADER, PLEASE!!! Another way is snail mail: Michael Haardt Auf der Hoern 40 5100 Aachen 1 Germany Ok, that's it. We are interested, what you think about MROFF, our favourite textprocessor on MINIX. Have fun! Monika Pandey - Angelica R. Gupta - Michael Haardt ------------------------------ Namaskaar ------------------------------