fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) (12/13/90)
I went to try to port transcript to the IBM Risc System 6000, AIX3.1,
in order to have troff support to our PostScript laser printers. It
turns out that AIX's troff command behaves somewhat differently than
the SUNOS (bsd?) troff -- it looks in /usr/lib/font for a dev* subdirectory
where the subdirectory is defined by the -T. Has anyone else attempted
to port transcript and created the appropriate files for such a directory?
Are there other (public domain) PostScript printing options in which a
troff to PostScript command exists?
Thanks. --Tim
Tim Fredrick National Center for Atmospheric Research
Atmospheric Chemistry Division
fredrick@ncar.ucar.edu PO Box 3000
fredrick@ncar.CSNET Boulder, CO 80307scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) (12/13/90)
In article <9521@ncar.ucar.edu> fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) writes: >I went to try to port transcript to the IBM Risc System 6000, AIX3.1, >in order to have troff support to our PostScript laser printers. It >turns out that AIX's troff command behaves somewhat differently than >the SUNOS (bsd?) troff -- it looks in /usr/lib/font for a dev* subdirectory >where the subdirectory is defined by the -T. Has anyone else attempted >to port transcript and created the appropriate files for such a directory? > >Are there other (public domain) PostScript printing options in which a >troff to PostScript command exists? > That is characteristic of ditroff - the troff distributed with AT&T's documenters workbench. The troff distributed with Suns and most BSD systems is and older version designed for a particular phototypesetter. Its also known as otroff. Ditroff is commonly distributed with Sys V based systems. I have not ported TransScript to the 6000, but I have on other systems. TranScript supports both ditroff and otroff. There are installation variables you can set to tell it to install the ditroff fonts: in particular look ad PSLIBDIR, DITDIR and DITROFFONTDIR. The transcript filter that converts ditroff to convert ditroff output to PostScript is "psdit". The "device" name for PostScript would be psc - as in devpsc and troff -Tpsc ... - Scott -- This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Scott Holt Internet: scott@prism.gatech.edu Georgia Tech UUCP: ..!gatech!prism!scott Office of Information Technology, Technical Services