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?