Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwstat!mikem From: mikem@uwstat.UUCP Newsgroups: net.text,net.unix,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Need nroff driving table for DEC printer Message-ID: <177@uwstat.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 22:59:19 EDT Article-I.D.: uwstat.177 Posted: Sat Oct 6 22:59:19 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Oct-84 03:20:42 EDT References: <2947@teklabs.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 30 > I have a DEC LA-100 printer. There is available for this machine > a character set ROM (SYMBOLS-10) that produces Greek and mathematical > symbols. Does anyone have an nroff terminal driving table for this > printer that includes the SYMBOLS-10 characters? Is there any reason > nroff wouldn't be able to utilize this character set? I have such a driver, BUT it is VERY UGLY: The main reason for the ugliness is that the la100 will not reliably do a reverse form-feed unless one uses friction feed, and that is more of a problem than I am willing to put up with. So I have a la-100 nroff driver and then a post-processor which gets rids of the reverse form-feeds and other ugliness and then prints pages; Well if this isn't bad enough - the nroff driver generates an obscure set of codes because I have several different post-processors for several different (and all brain-damaged) types of printers. This was I only have to run nroff once and then I can preview the document on say a zenith z-29 terminal and print it later on a real letter quality printer or the la100. But (again) it is UGLY . So if you are absolutely desperate I'll send you what I have; otherwise I suggest that it is almost worthwhile figuring out how to write your own drivers. But you too will curse nroff for wanting to put out reverse line-feeds. -- Mike Meyer -- Phone (608) 262-1157 EASY ARPA: mikem@statistics CORRECT ARPA: mikem@wisc-stat.arpa mikem@uwisc (if you have an old host table) UUCP: ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,sfwin,ucbvax,uwm-evax}!uwvax!mikem