From: utzoo!decvax!cca!mclure@SRI-UNIX@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: double daisy on Unix Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1553 Posted: Thu May 27 14:11:23 1982 Received: Sat May 29 06:44:00 1982 Date: 27 Apr 82 13:24-PDT >From one of our users: Because we do a lot of stuff with math in it, we are big users of the Greek surrogates via nroff. These range from excellent (e.g. lower- case sigma) to ludicrous (e.g. lower-case epsilon). I have seen commercial word processing systems that use the double-headed daisy wheel printers with ASCII characters on one daisy and Greek on t'other. It strikes me that someone in the far-flung world of UNICES must have seen this and married such a page printer with a UNIX. Such a lashup would save us pots of time, because we now have to convert ludicrous surrogates to space-holders (or opaque the output), then rub down transfer-type Greek and math symbols. Are you aware of any installations in which a UNIX drives such a double daisy with Greek on the second element? If not, how major a hassle to write a TTY driver to do so?