cjp@beartrk.beartrack.com (CJ Pilzer) (02/08/91)
Finally, I have gotten my 7300 to nroff correctly to the HP Laserjet III. The first thing was to get the operating system upgraded to 3.51. The files in the subdirectory /usr/lib/nterm are like those I have found in another computer. They are straight ascii files that can be edited, not like the ones in version 3.50. The file to use with the Laserjet is tab.hpljr8 which is designated in the command as follows: "nroff -Thpljr8 -man filename | lp". But the trouble is that words designated to be in italic print come out underlined and where they follow a bold character, the underline starts with no character over it then along space is inserted before the word is printed. This problem can be cured by editing the file /usr/lib/nterm/tab.hpljr8. Change the line that reads -- iton = "" -- to -- iton = "\033(s1sB" and the line that reads -- itoff = "" -- to itoff = "\033(sS". After these changes, the text will come out with italic where it should rather than underline and the long space will not appear. -- cjp@ursaco.beartrack.com